Musicology Commons^™

Sarti’S Fra I Due Litiganti And Opera In Vienna, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Giuseppe Sarti's opera Fra i due litiganti, premiered in Milan in 1782, was the first great success of the reconstituted Italian opera company in Vienna in 1783. The opera sustained its enormous Viennese popularity for years, while also being performed in over one hundred other European cities by 1800. Mozart's quotation of the work in Don Giovanni testifies to its continuing appeal. But the version of the opera that was so successful in many parts of Europe differed substantially from the Milanese original. The surviving manuscript scores and printed librettos reveal that a standardized Viennese version of Fra i …

A Mozart Duet In A Sarti Opera: ‘Là Ci Darem La Mano’ In Udine, 1793 [Post-Print], John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Giuseppe Sarti's opera buffa Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode was one of the great operatic successes of the late eighteenth century. First performed in Milan in September 1782, the opera was quickly taken up by theatres in other cities. In 1783 it began a long run at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where it had been performed more than sixty times by 1790. The opera was produced everywhere from Barcelona to Copenhagen, from Rouen to St Petersburg, in languages including German, French and Danish. By 1800 Fra i due litiganti had been given more than eighty productions across all …

American Periodicals: Music (Opportunities For Research In The Watkinson Library), Leonard Banco

Watkinson Publications

A traditional focus of collecting in the Watkinson since it opened on August 28, 1866, has been American periodicals, and there is quite a good representation of them from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. We hope that our students, faculty, and other researchers will appreciate this series of annotated guides to our periodicals, broken down into basic themes (politics, music, science and medicine, children, education, women, etc.), and listed in chronological order by date of the title's first issue.

Songs With Political Purpose: The Catalan Nova Cançó And Its Social Movement, Brooke Moschetto

Senior Theses and Projects

This thesis is a study of the interaction of music and politics during the social movement in Catalonia, Spain, the nova cançó. This interaction demonstrates the importance of a cultural identity, imagined communities, and cultural planning for a nation. In the case of Catalonia, the nova cançó played an immediate crucial role in the transformation of society during the last years of the extremely repressive dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Franco controlled Spain ideologically through censorships and power over the media in order to spread his values of a unified, homogenous, nationalist fatherland. In this way, he destroyed the …

Music In Print: The New-England Tunebook, Francis Russo

The Trinity Papers (2011 - present)

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Review Of Mozart’S Viennese Instrumental Music: A Study Of Stylistic Re- Invention, By Simon P. Keefe (Woodbridge, Uk, And Rochester, Ny, 2007) And Mozart’S Piano Music, By William Kinderman (Oxford And New York, 2006), John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Review-Essay: A New History For Martin's Una Cosa Rara, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewed works:

Reviewed Works:

Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà: dramma giocoso by Vincente Martín y Soler, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Gerhard Allroggen;

Una cosa rara ossia Bellezza ed onestà by Vincete Martín I Soler, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maria Angeles Peters, Montserrat Figueras, Gloria Fabuel, Ernesto Palacio, Inaki Fresán, Fernando Belaza-Leoz, Stafano Palatchi, Francesc Garrigosa, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

Mozart And His Rivals: Opera In Vienna In Mozart's Time, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Musical And Dramatic Structure In The Opera Buffa Finale, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

This essay, based on an examination of the finales of Mozart's operatic contemporaries in Vienna, will attempt to characterize the buffo finale more accurately than has until now been possible and correct certain misconceptions about the principles on which it is built. At the same time such an investigation reveals the limitations of basing an understanding of Viennese opera on the works of Mozart alone. And it illustrates the possibilities of an essentially new approach to this repertory: the critical evaluation of Mozart's operas, for the first time, within the stylistic context provided by a detailed knowledge of the operatic …

Review Of Rhythmic Gesture In Mozart: "Le Nozze Di Figaro"And "Don Giovanni", By Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago, 1983)., John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.