Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introdution
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Genesis of an operone
- 3 ‘Madame Dorothea Wendling is arcicontentissima’: the performers of Idomeneo
- 4 The genre of Idomeneo
- 5 From myth to libretto
- 6 Idomeneo after Mozart
- 7 General structure of Idomeneo
- 8 Two soliloquies
- 9 The musical language of Idomeneo
- 10 Tonality and motive
- 11 Elettra's first aria and the storm scene
- 12 Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- General preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introdution
- 1 Synopsis
- 2 Genesis of an operone
- 3 ‘Madame Dorothea Wendling is arcicontentissima’: the performers of Idomeneo
- 4 The genre of Idomeneo
- 5 From myth to libretto
- 6 Idomeneo after Mozart
- 7 General structure of Idomeneo
- 8 Two soliloquies
- 9 The musical language of Idomeneo
- 10 Tonality and motive
- 11 Elettra's first aria and the storm scene
- 12 Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993