Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (Centennial Books)

by Ellen Rosand (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $52.63

  Shows how opera took root in the social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera. This book examines critically the literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. It explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera.