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This book is an exploration of the musico-theatrical practices in Brazil from the Jesuit morality plays of the sixteenth century to the Italian operas celebrating the new independent nation in the 1820s, as expressed by the creative minds and bodies of actors, singers, poets, and composers. The book shows how the threefold goal of instructing, entertaining, and distracting the population—which a Brazilian producer spelled out in 1825—had been present in diverse combinations since the early colonial period, at the hands of missionaries, intellectuals, bureaucrats, political leaders, and cultural producers. The six chapters approach these issues from different perspectives, while offering a comprehensive view of the multiple aspects of musico-dramatic production in Portuguese America. Individual chapters discuss the foundations of Brazilian musical theater in the appropriation and adaptation of Iberian autos and comédias, the creation of a distinctive type of Portuguese comic opera by a Brazilian playwright during the early eighteenth century, the extant musical sources, and the sociopolitical context that determined the opening of dozens of opera houses during the second half of the

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Author

Rogério Budasz

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190215828

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts