Book Review
Jan. 20th, 2018 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariOpera in Seventeenth Century Venice: The Creation of A Genre
by Ellen Rosand
This book is a extremely interesting and detailed look at the development of opera in Venice during the early Baroque era. Rosand looks at everything from the philosophical ruminations on genre of the early scholarly librettists to the different types of arias and other musical forms that developed and became standard features of opera over the course of the century. Although some of the detail can be a bit of a slog to get through, Rosand is a good enough writer to keep it all from becoming tedious and to keep it all well worth the effort. Her clarity and insight keep everything interesting and compelling.
by Ellen Rosand
This book is a extremely interesting and detailed look at the development of opera in Venice during the early Baroque era. Rosand looks at everything from the philosophical ruminations on genre of the early scholarly librettists to the different types of arias and other musical forms that developed and became standard features of opera over the course of the century. Although some of the detail can be a bit of a slog to get through, Rosand is a good enough writer to keep it all from becoming tedious and to keep it all well worth the effort. Her clarity and insight keep everything interesting and compelling.
