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"Bruce Alan Brown is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars of eighteenth-century music, especially opera and dance. His first book, G
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luck and the French Theatre in Vienna (1991), contained marvelous new insights about Italian opera due his insistence on studying music and ballet together, an innovation Brown brought to opera scholarship. He is also the author of W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte (1995) and The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and His World (co-edited R. Harris-Warrick, 2005), among many other significant works. Just as Brown's interests cross several disciplines, the essays collected here in his honor reflect his multi-faceted scholarship, from dance-historical studies to musical iconography, performance practice and singing, the poetic construction of librettos, aspects of compositional techniques, gender and sexuality studies, and reevaluations of the field and its repertoire, among many others. In this unique volume, Brown's colleagues and students demonstrate the interconnectedness of eighteenth-century theatrical culture as well as Brown's wide range of influence on our knowledge of music of the eighteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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