The Art of the Ensemble Opera: A Comparative Study of the Uses of Ensemble in 1790s Vienna Through W.A. Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Domenico Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto

Ensembles have become iconic of the eighteenth-century opera buffa. Previous studies have focused their efforts on form, analyzing ensembles with instrumental structures. However, these forms do not provide information as to how ensemble texts are set musically or function in terms of drama. This st...

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Main Author: Murphy-Geiss, Kathleen
Other Authors: Smith, Marian
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19227