Depicting Affect through Text, Music, and Gesture in Venetian Opera, c. 1640-1658
Description:
Although early Venetian operas by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Cavalli offer today's listeners profound moments of emotion, the complex codes of meaning connecting emotion (or affect) with music in this repertoire are different from those of later seventeenth-century operatic repertoire. The specific textual and musical markers that librettists and composers used to indicate individual emotions in these operas were historically and culturally contingent, and many scholars …
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Date:
May 2018
Creator:
Hagen, Emily