Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
by
Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music...