The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music - Ernest Bloch Lectures - Wye Jamison Allanbrook - Books - University of California Press - 9780520274075 - June 7, 2014
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The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music - Ernest Bloch Lectures

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Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.


256 pages, 24 music examples

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 7, 2014
ISBN13 9780520274075
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 158 × 230 × 21 mm   ·   532 g
Language English  
Editor Smart, Mary Ann
Editor Taruskin, Richard

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