An Essay on the Opera / Saggio Sopra L'opera in Musica by Francesco Algarotti: Anonymous English Translation 1768 (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music)

This Essay on Opera by Francesco Algarotti is an important, but neglected treatise of 18th century musical aesthetics. It belongs to that mid-century movement in the arts that saw a reaction against the artificiality and formality of the Baroque style and toward the naturalness of expression characteristic of the painting, literature, drama, even fashions in gardening of the latter part of the century.Francesco Algarotti is the author of 'An Essay on the Opera / Saggio Sopra L'opera in Musica by Francesco Algarotti: Anonymous English Translation 1768 (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780773460485 and ISBN 0773460489.