Joncus, Berta. 2007. Producing Stars in dramma per musica. In: Melania Bucciarelli and Berta Joncus, eds. Music as Social and Cultural Practice: Essays in Honour of Reinhard Strohm. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 275-93. ISBN 9781843833178 [Book Section]

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Stars were perhaps more crucial to dramma per musica than to any other musical enterprise in Italy during the eighteenth century. Yet modern research on eighteenth-century singers generally fails to provide any methodology for how stars were produced, and how they interacted with the works they performed.1 This essay seeks to fill this gap. I will first outline influential twentieth-century theories in musicology on the relationship between the vocalist and the dramma per musica. I will then examine the means by which scholars in other disciplines recognise stars both as historical phenomena and as signifying elements within productions. Finally, I will suggest methods for applying theories about star production to dramma per musica in a manner that fits the historical conditions of this repertory.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Music
Dates:	Date Event 19 July 2007 Published
Item ID:	35496
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2024 14:39
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2024 14:39
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35496

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