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Transatlantic arias: early opera in Spain and the new world

By: Gasta, Chad M. (Chad Michael) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Biblioteca Aurea hispánica: v. 89.Publisher: Madrid Frankfurt am Main Iberoamericana ; Vervuert Verlag 2013Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783954872275; 3954872277.Subject(s): Opera -- South America -- 18th century | Opera -- Spain -- 17th century | Opera -- Spain -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 782.1098 Online resources: Disponible en Digitalia
Contents:
A European invention : the genesis of opera in Europe -- The origins and development of opera in early modern Europe -- An Italian revolution : the expansion of opera in Europe -- Opera in Spain and the New World : transatlantic opera and its origins -- Opera and musical culture in the New World -- Opera in the City of Kings : Tomás de Torrejón's La primera de la rosa -- Funding the arts in Lima : the political and social -- Reponsibility of aesthetics -- Opera and the ideological agenda -- Ideology and persuasion in Torrejón's Loa to La primera de la rosa -- Sacred arias : intercultural engagement and musical culture in the Jusuit missions of South America -- Mission musical culture -- Domenico Zipoli's San Ignacio de Loyola and Jesuit strategies of evangelization -- San Francisco Xavier : the emergence of indigenous opera.
Summary: Employing current theories of ideology, propaganda and musical reception, [this book] examiness the development and impact of early opera in Spain and the Americas through close examination of the New World's first three extant operas. What emerges is an amazing history of extraordinarily complex lyrical and musical works for their time and place, which are also critical for illuminating inimitable perspectives on the cohabitation and collaboration of indigenous groups and Europeans. -- Book cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A European invention : the genesis of opera in Europe -- The origins and development of opera in early modern Europe -- An Italian revolution : the expansion of opera in Europe -- Opera in Spain and the New World : transatlantic opera and its origins -- Opera and musical culture in the New World -- Opera in the City of Kings : Tomás de Torrejón's La primera de la rosa -- Funding the arts in Lima : the political and social -- Reponsibility of aesthetics -- Opera and the ideological agenda -- Ideology and persuasion in Torrejón's Loa to La primera de la rosa -- Sacred arias : intercultural engagement and musical culture in the Jusuit missions of South America -- Mission musical culture -- Domenico Zipoli's San Ignacio de Loyola and Jesuit strategies of evangelization -- San Francisco Xavier : the emergence of indigenous opera.

Employing current theories of ideology, propaganda and musical reception, [this book] examiness the development and impact of early opera in Spain and the Americas through close examination of the New World's first three extant operas. What emerges is an amazing history of extraordinarily complex lyrical and musical works for their time and place, which are also critical for illuminating inimitable perspectives on the cohabitation and collaboration of indigenous groups and Europeans. -- Book cover.

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