`An excellent and highly detailed study.' CHOICE Opera seria, eighteenth-century opera on heroic themes with arias, here receives serious scholarly appraisal which reveals the high quality of much of the music composed within the genre. Opera seriaarias can mostly be dated quite precisely, thus offering a superb context in which the author can investigate the evolution of musical style. In this study he has focused on the arias inthe opera serie composed between 1755and 1772 by Hasse, Jommelli and J.C.Bach, expanding his ...
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`An excellent and highly detailed study.' CHOICE Opera seria, eighteenth-century opera on heroic themes with arias, here receives serious scholarly appraisal which reveals the high quality of much of the music composed within the genre. Opera seriaarias can mostly be dated quite precisely, thus offering a superb context in which the author can investigate the evolution of musical style. In this study he has focused on the arias inthe opera serie composed between 1755and 1772 by Hasse, Jommelli and J.C.Bach, expanding his study to include the stylistic mileu in which they worked.
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