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Francesco Algarotti: AN ESSAY ON THE OPERA (Saggio sopra l'opera in musica) The editions of 1755 and 1763

Francesco Algarotti: AN ESSAY ON THE OPERA (Saggio sopra l'opera in musica) The editions of 1755 and 1763

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ISBN10: 180079505X
ISBN13: 9781800795051
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Nov 11 2021
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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