The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music Volume 15

by Wye Jamison Allanbrook

Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook 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. Allanbrook mines a rich trove...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274075
• ISBN13: 9780520274075
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"