A Language for German Opera

The Development of Forms and Formulas for Recitative and Aria in Seventeenth-Century German Libretti

by Judith P Aikin

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Extent: 349 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Series: Wolfenbutteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung

Series volume number: 37

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(December 2002)

ISBN: 9783447046534

9.45 x 6.65 inches

Price: $109.00

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Content Introductory Remarks on Word-Music Relations: “Mein selbst ander ich” Forms for Early German Opera in Dresden: Heinrich Schutz, Martin Opitz and Augustus Buchner Two Directions for the Early German Opera Libretto: Georg Philipp Harsdorffer and Simon Dach German Language Opera in Dresden, 1650 -1680 The Turning Point: Caspar Ziegler’s Von den Madrigalen (1653) and Initial Signs of its Impact in Dresden and Wolfenbuttel The Final Pieces of the Puzzle: Festspiele in Rudolstadt (1665 -1667) and “Die hallische Oper” (1660 -1679) Three Operas at the Threshold of Maturity: Rosander und Rosimene (1679),Floretto (1683), and Die Drey Tochter Cecrops (1679) Opera as Poetic Genre and Source of Poetic Forms: “das galanteste Stuck der Poesie” Bibliographies Indices

  • By (author) Judith P Aikin