TY - JOUR
AU - Meyer, Stephen
AB - Scholarship Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, eds.: The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 339 pages, £55, $99 Although the traditional periodization of music history has been subjected to more than a half century of critique, it remains remarkably influential, not merely in music history curricula, but also with regard to the training of musicologists and to the more general organization of the field. By its very title, then, the recently published collection of essays edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti may appear to stake out a revisionist stance vis-à-vis conventional historical accounts. Polzonetti and DelDonna, in other words, have not edited a companion to opera in the baroque period, still less a companion to the operas of Gluck or Mozart. Instead, they have compiled a collection of essays that sheds light on a number of lesser-known figures, works, and national traditions: essays that carry us far beyond the tra- ditional ground of composer biography and the development of musical style. Taken as a whole, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera may therefore be understood as an extended argument for border crossing—for challenging the chronological, geographical, and ontological boundaries that have conventionally 
TI - Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti, eds.: The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera
JF - The Opera Quarterly
DO - 10.1093/oq/kbr002
DA - 2011-03-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/anthony-r-deldonna-and-pierpaolo-polzonetti-eds-the-cambridge-JOjWbGXTAH
SP - 135
EP - 138
VL - 27
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -