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Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.

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"Consistently accessible, quick-witted and amusing ... One must be grateful to Smart and Taruskin for asserting the virtues of scholarly community by taking up Wendy Allanbrook's unfinished opus and delivering it to the world." -- W. Dean Sutcliffe Early Music

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin 1. Comic Flux and Comic Precision 2. Comic Voice in the Late Mimetic Period 3. The Comic Surface 4. Comic Finitude and Comic Closure Notes Bibliography Index

The Secular Commedia

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    A Hardback by Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Ann Smart, Richard Taruskin

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 7 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9780520274075
      978-0520274075
      ISBN-10 0520274075
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      Art music, orchestral and formal music

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, this book shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa.

      Trade Review
      "Consistently accessible, quick-witted and amusing ... One must be grateful to Smart and Taruskin for asserting the virtues of scholarly community by taking up Wendy Allanbrook's unfinished opus and delivering it to the world." -- W. Dean Sutcliffe Early Music

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Foreword Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin 1. Comic Flux and Comic Precision 2. Comic Voice in the Late Mimetic Period 3. The Comic Surface 4. Comic Finitude and Comic Closure Notes Bibliography Index

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