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9780226078090

Magic Flutes & Enchanted Forests

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226078090

  • ISBN10:

    0226078094

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes,Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forestsargues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despiteand perhaps even because oftheir fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart'sThe Magic FluteandDon Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart's wake.

Author Biography

David J. Buch is professor of music at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction Precedents & Sources of Magic & the “Marvelous”
L’Académie Royale de Musique
Opéra-comique
Italian Serious Genres
Italian Comic Genres
German Musical Theater
The Supernatural in the Operas of Mozart Postscript The Significance & Influence of Supernatural Topics
Chronological List of Operas, Ballets, Comédies, Féeries, Pantomimes & Other Plays with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1699–1791
Selected Italian Circe, Medea & Orpheus Operas, 1700–1791
Operas Based on Ariosto & Tasso, 1700–1791
Some Eighteenth-Century Italian Don Juan Settings
Chronological List of German Theatrical Works with Magic & Supernatural Content, 1728–92
Bibliography
Index
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