Thesis
Opera and nationalism in mid-eighteenth-century Britain
- Abstract:
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Italian opera gained an odd resonance in eighteenth-century British sensibility. By turns loved and hated, it acted on the British imagination as a catalyst both for some of the age's most brilliant satire, and for some of the century's most unusual musical extravagances. This dissertation argues that, despite (or in some ways because of) the eventual failure of Italian serious opera and its English hybrid forms to attain status within the musical canon, the progress of opera played a vit...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1999
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602330270
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602330270
- Deposit date:
- 2013-06-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Aspden, Suzanne
- Copyright date:
- 1999
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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