Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice |
Acknowledgments |
Editorial Procedure |
Abbreviations |
Introduction |
1— Far recitare un'opera a Venezia : Origins and Sources |
2— Dramma per musica : The Question of Genre |
3— Da rappresentare in musica : The Rise of Commercial Opera |
4— La finta pazza : Mirror of an Audience |
5— All'immortalità del nome di Venetia : The Serenissima on Stage |
6— La nausea di chi ascolta : The Consequences of Success |
• | Making Histories |
• | Giovanni Faustini, "Librettist" |
• | Faustini's Heirs |
• | Marco Faustini, Impresario |
• | Marco's Guerra dei teatri |
7— I compositori scenici : Librettist and Composer |
8— I più canori cigni e le suavissime sirene : The Singers |
9— Gran dicerie e canzonette : Recitative and Aria |
10— Il diletto : Aria, Drama, and the Emergence of Formal Conventions |
11— Le convenienze teatrali : The Conventions of Dramma Per Musica |
12— Il lamento : The Fusion of Music and Drama |
13— Il ritorno d'Orfeo : The Decline of a Tradition |
Appendix I— Librettos |
Appendix II— Treatises, Critical and Historical Accounts |
Appendix III— Correspondence and Documents |
Bibliography |
Musical Examples |
Index |