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Reason and Desire, Education and Regression: Aspects of Rousseauist Gender Roles in Così fan tutteJanuary 1999 (has links)
Mozart's opera Così fan tutte encapsulates various theories of
Enlightenment sexual expression and presents a didactic program aiming at
appropriate male comportment in a love situation. Through various musical
devices, Mozart establishes ideal Rousseauist gender characteristics
and their debased forms, and applies them to the respective sexes as evidence of
weakened or enlightened states. Mozart also provides an educative voice in the
character of Don Alfonso, whose musical lines are appropriately instructive. An
exploration of sexual ideals in the Enlightenment as expressed in contemporary
texts and civil documents will provide a framework for Rousseau's theories of
education and gender formation as postulated in Emile, ou de l'education and
Sophie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse. A musical analysis of several numbers in Cosi
demonstrates the unfolding weaknesses of the characters. While the men
progress towards an enlightened education in the natures of the sexes, the
women undergo a regression of character.
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Fanfare and Pastoral Topics in Mozart's Così fan tutteVagts, Andrew 08 1900 (has links)
This dissertation explores the use of topics for dramatic purposes in Mozart's Così fan tutte. The five analytical chapters are organized around a central question: how do pastoral and fanfare topics shape the plot of Così fan tutte? Chapter 2 highlights the role topics and tropes play in emplacing and nuancing emergent meaning in the Così fan tutte motto. Chapter 3 examines transformative topical tropes in "Ah guarda, sorella." Chapter 4 shows how the horn fifths and fanfare topics in "Per pietà, ben mio" frame Fiordiligi's choice: the Albanian or Guglielmo. Chapter 5 illustrates the relationship between fanfare topics and galant recitative schemas to articulate formal boundaries between accompanied recitatives and arias. The expectations of closure emplaced by the examples from Così fan tutte nuance a reading of "Hai già vinta la causa!" from Le nozze di Figaro. Chapter 6 discusses the role of recitative intrusions and their articulation of the Count's unrest in "Vedrò mentre io sospiro." Detailed analyses and close readings of the topics and tropes in this dissertation drawn from throughout Così fan tutte showcase Mozart's rich deployment of topics in varied musical and dramatic roles.
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Così fan tutte? A Study of Character Development through Key Characteristics in the Prima Donna and Soubrette Roles from Four of W.A. Mozart's Late Italian OperasTsai, Meng-Jung 08 1900 (has links)
This dissertation investigates how W. A. Mozart applies the concept of key characteristics—the affective properties of each tonality—as discussed by three of his contemporaries, Johann Mattheson, C.F.D. Schubart and G.J. Vogler, to four soubrette and four prima donna characters from four of his late Italian operas: La Contessa and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro; Donna Anna and Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Fiordiligi and Despina in Così fan tutte; Vitellia and Servilia in La clemenza di Tito. The analytical method of this dissertation provides a hermeneutical tool to search for meanings in Mozart's music. The application compares the libretto text and its corresponding tonal center with the description of key characteristics on a micro level, to reveal significant dramatic and practical implications from Mozart's key usage in his operas.
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