Opera and the Enlightenment

Contents

• List of plates; Library abbreviations;
• Introduction Thomas Bauman;
• Part I . Prologue:
• 1. Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera Gary Tomlinson;
• Part II . Opera and the Visual Arts:
• 2. Moralizing at the tomb: Poussin's Arcadian shepherds in eighteenth-century England and Germany Thomas Bauman;
• 3. Dr Burney, the bear, and the knight: E. F. Burney's Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music Kerry S. Grant;
• 4. New light(s) on Weber's Wolf's Glen scene Anthony Newcomb;
• Part III . Serious Opera:
• 5. Sinfonia and drama in early eighteenth-century opera seria Reinhard Strohm;
• 6. The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 Mary Cyr;
• 7. Transforming opera seria: Verazi's innovations and their impact on opera in Italy Marita Petzoldt McClymonds;
• Part IV . Handel and Gluck:
• 8. Handel's Serse Winton Dean;
• 9. The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel John H. Roberts;
• 10. Zephire et Flore: a 'galant' early ballet by Angiolini and Gluck Bruce Alan Brown;
• 11. Gluck's Iphigenia operas: sources and strategies Julie E. Cumming;
• Part V . Concerning Mozart:
• 12. The 'storm' music of Beaumarchais' Barbier de Seville Walter E. Rex;
• 13. On Don Giovanni, No. 2 Joseph Kerman;
• 14. Leopold II, Mozart, and the return to a Golden Age John A. Rice;
• Part VI . Epilogue:
• 15. From fairy tale to opera in four moves (not so simple) Richard Taruskin; Index.