Author: Wendy Heller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).
Emblems of Eloquence
Author: Wendy Heller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).
The Eloquence of Shadows
Author: Hugh Buchanan
Publisher: Young Writers
ISBN: 9780952333104
Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher: Young Writers
ISBN: 9780952333104
Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Flowers and Heraldry; Or, Floral Emblems and Heraldic Figures ...
Author: Robert Tyas (Vicar of East Tilbury, Essex.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Flowers and Heraldry; Or, Floral Emblems and Heraldic Figures, Combined to Express Pure Sentiments, Kind Feelings, and Excellent Principles, in a Manner at One Simple, Elegant, and Beautiful ... With Twenty-four Emblazoned Plates, Drawn ... and Coloured by James Andrews
The Eloquence of Symbols
The Emblem
Author: John Manning
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891983
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
John Manning's The Emblem charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixteenth century, and through its various reinventions to the present day.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891983
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
John Manning's The Emblem charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixteenth century, and through its various reinventions to the present day.
The Emblem in Scandinavia and the Baltic
Author: Simon McKeown
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9780852618226
Category : Emblem books
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9780852618226
Category : Emblem books
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 137, No. 3, 1993)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
American Churches ...
Author: James McFarlan Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description