dc.contributor.author |
Badley, Allan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-11-18T02:18:17Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2010 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Fontes Artis Musicae 57(2):211-214 2010 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0015-6191 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9400 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Opera seria was still regarded as the most prestigious musical genre in the middle decades of the eighteenth century and no more so than in its spiritual home, Italy. To succeed as a composer of opera seria was no mean feat for a foreign-born musician: it demanded not only mastery of the rigid conventions of the genre but also the temperament to cope with the monstrous egos of some of its greatest exponents. The successful composer needed to be able to charm and cajole these haughty creatures as well as produce music that was regarded as worthy of the great traditions of Italian opera. Audiences were fickle and a succession of failures might put an end to future commissions. Josef Myslivecˇek (1737–1781) laboured under the double disadvantage of being a foreigner and, worse, a foreigner with an unpronounceable name. ... |
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dc.publisher |
A-r Editions |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Fontes Artis Musicae |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 57, no. 2, p. 211-214 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0015-6191/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Review of the book Josef Myslivecek, "Il Boemo" The Man and His Music by Daniel Freeman. Detroit Monographs in Musicology, Studies in Music, No.54 |
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dc.type |
Other |
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pubs.issue |
2 |
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pubs.begin-page |
211 |
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pubs.volume |
57 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: A-r Editions |
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pubs.author-url |
http://www.iaml.info/en/publications/fontes/2010 |
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pubs.end-page |
214 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Review |
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pubs.elements-id |
99551 |
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pubs.org-id |
Creative Arts and Industries |
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pubs.org-id |
Music |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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