Osmin's Rage
Subtitle: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text With a New Final Chapter
Edition: Subsequent edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801485893
Subjects: Aesthetics; Opera; Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy and aesthetics; Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; MUS028000; MUS; Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: When Dr. Johnson characterized the opera as an "irrational entertainment," he unknowingly tapped a vein of musical thought that ran through the entire history of the art-form to that date, and continued beyond.