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Theresa Muir, Ph.D.
TMUIR@EMAIL.GC.CUNY.EDU
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Ted McIrvine wrote:
> Dear Collective Wisdom:
>
> I was very surprised, while reading the program notes for Handel's
> "Guilio Cesare" at the Metropolitan Opera last night, to read a comment
> about a "current misconception" concerning arias and recitatives --- the
> program annotator stated that people mistakenly believe that the
> recitative conveys the essential dramatic action. The author seems to
> believe the core of the dramatic narrative in opera seria is through
> arias. Unfortunately he neither cited a source nor amplified what I
> consider a dubious belief.
>
> Does anyone on the list support this point of view? I haven't seen
> anything in the literature that contradicts what I learned in Grout,
> Kerman, Palisca, Bukofzer et al, and I think these four sources are
> neither "current" nor a "misconception."
>
> Ted McIrvine
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> http://www.csi.cuny.edu/academia/programs/mus.html
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