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SUMMARY:Le roi caché : incognito and false identity in Baroque opera - Pr
 ofessor Reinhard Strohm\, University of Oxford
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DESCRIPTION:Incognito – disguise\, concealment of identity – is a stra
 tegy used by people in many situations\, for example by early modern princ
 es when they wished to amuse themselves. The lecture unfolds a panorama of
  literary uses of the incognito\, from folk-tales via spoken plays to oper
 as\, and attempts a classification of the device in the literary genres: m
 agic\, tragic\, heroic\, romantic\, comic and pastoral. The philosophical 
 reputation of the pastoral incognito is traced in classical authors\, in J
 ohn Dunton’s treatise The art of living incognito (1700)\, and in Joseph
  von Eichendorff’s play Das Incognito (c. 1840). Occurrences in operas o
 f Handel’s era are thematically listed and categorised\; three brief cas
 es studies taken from drammi per musica explore narrative or scenic uses a
 nd their relevance to courtly etiquette. Finally\, analytical consideratio
 ns of the entire field address the hermeneutics of social relationships an
 d aim at a historical view of the concept of the individual.\n\nProfessor 
 Strohm is Emeritus Professor of Music in Oxford (Heather Professor from 19
 96 – 2007). bPh.D. 1971\, TU Berlin (with C. Dahlhaus) on ‘Italian ope
 ra arias of the early 18th century’. 1970-82 co-editor\, Richard-Wagner-
 Gesamtausgabe\, Munich. 1975-83 Lecturer then Reader in Music\, King’s C
 ollege\, U. of London. 1983-90 Professor of Musicology\, Yale University. 
 1990-96 Reader then Professor of Historical Musicology\, King’s College 
 London. Corresponding member\, American Musicological Society\; Akademie d
 er Wissenschaften\, Göttingen. Fellow\, British Academy. Prize-winner Bal
 zan Foundation 2012. Currently directs the Balzn Research Project "Towards
  a global history of music".
LOCATION:Recital Room\, Faculty of Music
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