The Lament in Venetian Opera of the Seventeenth Century

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Ellen Rosand
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559)

To study the lament in Venetian opera as a means of 1) gaining a precise measure of the increasing separation between music and drama that characterizes the development of Baroque opera; 2) examining the power of music to communicate emotion; 3) acquiring an overal view of the style of Francesco Cavalli, the most important and prolific opera composer in Venice from 1640-1660.