{"product_id":"the-secular-commedia-9780520274075","title":"The Secular Commedia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHearing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402858766679,"sku":"9780520274075","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520274075.jpg?v=1730481703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secular-commedia-9780520274075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}