Osmin's Rage
, by Kivy, PeterNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780801485893 | 0801485894
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/1999
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.