An essay on the opera = Saggio sopra l'opera in musica : the editions of 1755 and 1763 /
Algarotti, Francesco,conte,1712-1764,author.
Burgess, Robin,1949-editor.
"This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the Eighteenth Century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style. The Essay in its original Italian had considerable influence on the reform opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck"--
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book is the first translation into the English language of a comprehensive study of opera and its constituent parts by an accomplished writer of the Eighteenth Century. Francesco Algarotti was concerned with developing opera as drama and a move away from the elaborate formality of the Baroque to a more naturalistic style. The Essay in its original Italian had considerable influence on the reform opera of Christoph Willibald Gluck"--
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764.
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