Dramma per musica?the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century?was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically de
In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Handel's birth, Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition, focusing on the Italian school, to which they are so crucially indebted. Handel's immediate heritage included the figures of Scarlatti, Gasparini and Vivaldi; this book establishes that context, concentrating on contemporary operatic practice, and proceeds to analyse three of Handel's best-known works. It shows how they elaborate and develop the style and method of the Italian operatic theatre, embracing previous traditions and synthesizing them with a new and exciting accentuation.
The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of music that pays due attention to global relationships
(Eulenberg Audio plus Score). Scores to the overtures from the operas Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, and Tannhauser with introductory notes and a companion CD of recorded performances.
