Music and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Dramatic Tableau

This article puts forward a new theory for discussing eighteenth-century music as narrative by combining literary theories of narrative with an analytical and historical exploration of the eighteenth-century opera overture. Through a consideration of how the overture to Iphigénie en Aulide prepares...

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Main Author: Kieran Fenby-Hulse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-07-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4585/