Osmin's Rage

By Peter Kivy

Book Overview

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801485894
• ISBN13: 9780801485893
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher