{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2104858442","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","title":"Pimmalione: Rousseau and the Melodramatisation of Italian Opera","display_name":"Pimmalione: Rousseau and the Melodramatisation of Italian Opera","publication_year":2014,"publication_date":"2014-02-19","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2104858442","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","mag":"2104858442"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0954586713000347","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S118961634","display_name":"Cambridge Opera Journal","issn_l":"0954-5867","issn":["0954-5867","1474-0621"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-70","russia-white-list-2"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Cambridge Opera Journal","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5003103187","display_name":"Ellen Lockhart","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3485-4387","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3485-4387"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Ellen Lockhart","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5003103187"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":{"value":3550,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3550},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":2,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.2820288,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":94},"biblio":{"volume":"26","issue":"1","first_page":"1","last_page":"39"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10941","display_name":"Musicology and Musical Analysis","score":0.9984999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1210","display_name":"Music"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10941","display_name":"Musicology and Musical Analysis","score":0.9984999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1210","display_name":"Music"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13330","display_name":"Theater, Performance, and Music History","score":0.000699999975040555,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1210","display_name":"Music"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13153","display_name":"Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought","score":0.0003000000142492354,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pygmalion","display_name":"Pygmalion","score":0.746999979019165},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jean-jacques-rousseau","display_name":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","score":0.9520000219345093},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/italian-opera","display_name":"Italian opera","score":0.6179999709129333},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/musical-notation","display_name":"musical notation","score":0.4569999873638153},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/venetian-opera","display_name":"Venetian opera","score":0.8870000243186951},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/gaetano-donizetti","display_name":"Donizetti","score":0.8429999947547913},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/bellini","display_name":"Bellini","score":0.9549999833106995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/onomatopoeia","display_name":"onomatopoeia","score":0.6859999895095825}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C530479602","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344","display_name":"Opera","level":2,"score":0.7978689074516296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776445246","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1792644","display_name":"Style (visual arts)","level":2,"score":0.61346834897995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.5812167525291443},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.5300517082214355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C189645446","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350865","display_name":"Mirroring","level":2,"score":0.4813838303089142},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C1370556","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81009","display_name":"Rhetoric","level":2,"score":0.47967052459716797},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780876879","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3054749","display_name":"Meaning (existential)","level":2,"score":0.4470767080783844},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.35746875405311584},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.32468461990356445},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.21402442455291748},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.12160718441009521},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C46312422","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11024","display_name":"Communication","level":1,"score":0.09458255767822266},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0954586713000347","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586713000347","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S118961634","display_name":"Cambridge Opera Journal","issn_l":"0954-5867","issn":["0954-5867","1474-0621"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","erih-plus","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-70","russia-white-list-2"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Cambridge Opera Journal","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":43,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W357495789","https://openalex.org/W568072890","https://openalex.org/W569199783","https://openalex.org/W613067236","https://openalex.org/W627648503","https://openalex.org/W638502451","https://openalex.org/W648701386","https://openalex.org/W658521411","https://openalex.org/W745290092","https://openalex.org/W1485528656","https://openalex.org/W1492325763","https://openalex.org/W1502260944","https://openalex.org/W1511124424","https://openalex.org/W1531326738","https://openalex.org/W1567906545","https://openalex.org/W1584484106","https://openalex.org/W1601530593","https://openalex.org/W1981076822","https://openalex.org/W1985430303","https://openalex.org/W2031175241","https://openalex.org/W2058326750","https://openalex.org/W2058544014","https://openalex.org/W2063996664","https://openalex.org/W2074842489","https://openalex.org/W2083765565","https://openalex.org/W2112893803","https://openalex.org/W2154930722","https://openalex.org/W2318486167","https://openalex.org/W2323061003","https://openalex.org/W2326767920","https://openalex.org/W2488693193","https://openalex.org/W2593849715","https://openalex.org/W2798102141","https://openalex.org/W2802073013","https://openalex.org/W2956728310","https://openalex.org/W3018310851","https://openalex.org/W3023805503","https://openalex.org/W4249144901","https://openalex.org/W4252622017","https://openalex.org/W4255785077","https://openalex.org/W4392086738","https://openalex.org/W6645285495","https://openalex.org/W6940540924"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4250020935","https://openalex.org/W7057419855","https://openalex.org/W2803142278","https://openalex.org/W2732473968","https://openalex.org/W2892871522","https://openalex.org/W7072100309","https://openalex.org/W222845125","https://openalex.org/W4205435663","https://openalex.org/W2343611352","https://openalex.org/W4402527141"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"This":[1,94],"article":[2,95,180],"traces":[3,181],"the":[4,16,23,29,44,59,63,68,91,116,130,154,161,166,182,201,217],"Italian":[5,41,138,157,189],"reception":[6],"of":[7,18,31,34,53,65,81,101,111,124,142,156,176,184,188,200,210,220],"Jean-Jacques":[8],"Rousseau":[9],"and":[10,37,70,89,149,163,171,205,213],"Horace":[11],"Coignet\u2019sPygmalion(1770),":[12],"ultimately":[13],"arguing":[14],"that":[15,103],"influence":[17],"early":[19,222],"melodrama":[20,50,132],"(and":[21],"not":[22],"better-remembered":[24],"Viennese":[25],"reform)":[26],"was":[27,51,73,119,133,151,215],"behind":[28],"emergence":[30,183],"a":[32,54,79,109,177,185],"style":[33,187],"speech-like":[35],"singing":[36],"gestural":[38,211],"mirroring":[39,212],"in":[40,43,85,114,129,192],"opera":[42,158,199],"decades":[45],"immediately":[46],"around":[47],"1800.":[48],"Rousseauian":[49],"one":[52],"few":[55],"related":[56],"projects":[57,105],"subsuming":[58],"spoken":[60,92],"word":[61],"within":[62],"domain":[64],"music":[66,83],"during":[67,160],"1770s":[69,162],"1780s;":[71],"another":[72],"Joshua":[74],"Steele\u2019sProsodia":[75],"rationalis,":[76],"which":[77,115],"proposed":[78],"system":[80],"modified":[82],"notation":[84],"order":[86],"to":[87,121],"preserve":[88],"transmit":[90],"word.":[93],"suggests":[96],"(contra":[97],"most":[98],"recent":[99],"historians":[100],"melodrama)":[102],"such":[104],"were":[106],"inflected":[107],"by":[108,165],"kind":[110],"twilight":[112],"classicism,":[113],"revived":[117],"object":[118],"made":[120],"show":[122],"signs":[123],"decay.":[125],"The":[126],"revivalist":[127],"strain":[128],"first":[131,191],"particularly":[134],"important":[135],"for":[136],"its":[137],"reception.":[139],"Rousseau\u2019s":[140],"ideal":[141],"an":[143],"ancient,":[144],"onomatopoeic":[145],"language":[146],"collapsing":[147],"meaning":[148],"medium":[150],"naturalised":[152],"into":[153,197,207],"rhetoric":[155],"reform":[159],"1780s":[164],"Jesuit":[167],"theorists":[168],"Antonio":[169],"Eximeno":[170],"Stefano":[172],"Arteaga.":[173],"By":[174],"way":[175],"coda,":[178],"this":[179],"\u2018melodramatic\u2019":[186],"opera,":[190],"all-sung":[193],"adaptations":[194],"ofPygmalion,":[195],"thence":[196],"Venetian":[198],"1790s":[202],"more":[203],"broadly,":[204],"finally":[206],"Donizetti\u2019s":[208],"techniques":[209],"what":[214],"called":[216],"\u2018canto":[218],"filosofico\u2019":[219],"Bellini\u2019s":[221],"operas.":[223]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-16T09:59:22.235173","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}