'Sancta Caecilia Rediviva'. Elizabeth Linley: repertoire, reputation and the English voice
Whether we think of an aria as a ‘miniature’ or not, the analyst’s temptation to synecdoche is ever-present: great arias can, at times, stand for great operas or their composers, just as great composers have stood for their epochs. While monumentalising the composer is now passé, the lapidary quali...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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