Periodic Reporting for period 2 - DIDONE (The Sources of Absolute Music: Mapping Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera)

The belief that “the end of music is to move human affections” (Descartes, Compendium musicae) has been a central issue in European musical thought since Plato. In fact, the history of opera is a permanent exploration of the capacity of action, words, and music to convey...