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The German Baroque Pastoral 'singspiel' (berner Beiträge Zur Barockgermanistik) by Mara R. Wade is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The German Baroque Pastoral 'singspiel' (berner Beiträge Zur Barockgermanistik) about?
The study focuses on the earliest German-language opera libretti, the pastoral Singspiele. The history of the term is traced throughout various poetical treatises of the 17th century, from Opitz to Stieler. Three works, Seelewig, Psyche, and Amelinde, are compared in terms of dramatic structure, poetic formulation of the text, the role of literary contrafacture, and the extent of musical accompaniment. The allegorical theme of anima et corpo unites all three works and, indeed, is characteristic
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mara R. Wade
- Publisher
- P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783261041869
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Music, History, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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