In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.,

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Title: Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801485894
ISBN 13: 9780801485893
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Dimensions: 1.88 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
Weight: 454 grams

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In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical―as opposed to a dramatic―necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

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Peter Kivy is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the author of Music Alone; Authenticities; and Sound and Semblance, all from Cornell.

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