Osmin's rage : philosophical reflections on opera, drama, and text, with a new final chapter
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Osmin's rage : philosophical reflections on opera, drama, and text, with a new final chapter
（Cornell paperbacks）
Cornell University Press, c1999
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Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index
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In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical-as opposed to a dramatic-necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo is properly enjoyed and judged only when listeners are attuned to its seventeenth and eighteenth-century forebears.
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