The Commedia dell’Arte as Theater
The Commedia dell’Arte as Theater
This chapter provides an introduction to the commedia dell’arte for musicological audiences, with particular attention paid to the sound of the genre and the use of music within spoken dramatic performances. A scene from Giovan Battista Andreini’s published commedia dell’arte play, La Sultana (1622), is used to explain how sound constituted the dramatic fabric of the spoken theatre. The commedia dell’arte is summarised in broad terms, including a breakdown of the stock characters typical of the genre. The use of music in commedia dell’arte performance is described.
Keywords: commedia dell’arte, opera, sound, La Sultana, Giovan Battista Andreini, music, stock characters
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