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Bushey, Sarah Ann.

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The sea monster on stage: Creating supernatural horror in opera, 1637-1781.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The sea monster on stage: Creating supernatural horror in opera, 1637-1781./
作者:	Bushey, Sarah Ann.
面頁冊數:	171 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
標題:	Music. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3729126
ISBN:	9781339148915

The sea monster on stage: Creating supernatural horror in opera, 1637-1781.
Bushey, Sarah Ann.

The sea monster on stage: Creating supernatural horror in opera, 1637-1781. - 171 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2015.

The topic of the supernatural in seventeenth-century music is a popular one, and it comes as no surprise, considering the importance of "le merveilleux" or "the marvelous" to the genre of opera in particular during that time. The supernatural in eighteenth-century opera, however, is a subject that has yet to receive the scholarly attention it merits. This dissertation is an addition to the growing body of literature on the relatively neglected topic of the supernatural in eighteenth-century opera with its focus on the image of the sea monster: its musical characteristics, its visual features, and the meanings it conveyed to contemporary audiences. In some cases, it explores how the monsters on stage were constructed, the materials of which they were composed, and how they were operated. On a broad level, it demonstrates that the sea monster's appearance in seventeenth century operatic predecessors was largely due to the taste for visual spectacles and extravagant displays on stage. Additionally, the monster's presence in French productions based upon the myth of Andromeda is often interpreted allegorically as a threat to a monarch's power. Operatic incarnations of the same myth (and other myths that include sea monsters) from the eighteenth century provide a window through which I have been able to examine operatic conventions and their transformation across multiple genres in works from both French and Italian traditions. The reduced role of the chorus that frequently accompanied the monster's presence and the absence of the monster physically on stage in several eighteenth-century productions reflect the changing function of theatrical entertainment within the public sphere in both French and Italian cultures. The musical representation of the monster is significantly more advanced in eighteenth-century productions rather than those from the previous century, where visual spectacle was considered more important. Understanding how composers and librettists sought to communicate to their audiences is an undercurrent of this project, and this document overall explores how operatic works in one culture impact and inform those in another.

ISBN: 9781339148915Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
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