Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought (eBook)

Gloria Flaherty (Autor)

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2015
396 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6836-0 (ISBN)

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Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced. Beginning with this observation, Gloria Flaherty tries to show how, from its very inception and through most of its history, opera was related not only to the revival of ancient drama and the evolution of modern theater, but also to the development of modern critical thought. The author provides a comprehensive treatment of the writings both for and against the operatic forms that dominated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German theater. Included in her focus are the academic critics who denounced the failure of opera to comply with universally valid standards of beauty and the rules of drama; the various sermonizers who condemned opera's excessive emphasis on the senses and preached total abstinence; and the theatrical artists and patrons as well as the innumerable poets, philosophers, and writers who upheld the freedom to experiment and defended opera as a modern theatrical form with nearly unlimited artistic possibilities. As a result of these controversies, the defense of opera helped to shape a distinctively German version of the classical ideal, enriched German criticism with new vocabulary, promoted the study of the performing arts, and emphasized music and spectacle as essential components of theater.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: aesthetic theory • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten • Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung • Ariadne auf Naxos • Ars Poetica (Horace) • August Wilhelm Schlegel • Ballad Opera • Bertolt Brecht • Carl Heinrich Graun • Carlo Goldoni • chivalric romance • Christian Fürchtegott Gellert • Christian Heinrich Postel • Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau • Christoph Graupner • Christoph Martin Wieland • Classicism • coloratura • Comic opera • Criticism • dramatic theory • Emilio de' Cavalieri • Empfindsamkeit • Essay • Euripides • Felix Mendelssohn • Frederick the Great • French Opera • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock • Friedrich Nicolai • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg • Genre • Georg Philipp Telemann • German Art • German Language • German Literature • german name • German philosophy • German Romanticism • German Studies • Gesamtkunstwerk • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz • Grand opera • Greek tragedy • Hanswurst • Heinrich von Ofterdingen • Hermann Samuel Reimarus • Hermann Vogel (German illustrator) • italian opera • Johann Adam Hiller • Johann Adolph Hasse • Johann Christoph Gottsched • Johann Christoph Pepusch • Johann Friedrich Agricola • Johann Georg Hamann • Johann Heinrich Zedler • Johann Jakob Breitinger • Johann Joachim Christoph Bode • Johann Joachim Winckelmann • Johann Mattheson • johann wilhelm hertel • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Leipzig Opera • Lessing • Libretto • Lodovico Castelvetro • Ludwig Tieck • Medieval Poetry • Melodrama • Minna von Barnhelm • Musical Theatre • Neoclassicism • Opera • Opera buffa • Opera Seria • operetta • oratorio • Orfeo ed Euridice • Ottavio Rinuccini • Pietro Metastasio • Playwright • Poetry • Postel • Puritans • Reinhard Keiser • Romanticism • romantische Oper • Rudolf Erich Raspe • SCHOLASTICISM • Seelewig • Singing • Singspiel • Sturm und Drang • The Beggar's Opera • Thuringia • Ulrich von Hutten • Verisimilitude • William Shakespeare • Writing • Zeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6836-X / 140086836X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6836-0 / 9781400868360