Osmin's Rage
| Author | : Peter Kivy |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2018-09-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501727405 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1501727400 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (400 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Osmin's Rage by : Peter Kivy
Download or read book Osmin's Rage written by Peter Kivy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
