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Author | : Caroline Wood |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317132769 |
From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.
Author | : Caroline Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781315583198 |
From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period. This is a wide-ranging picture of the organization and evolution of French baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an insight into Lully's once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English.
Author | : CAROLINE. SADLER WOOD (GRAHAM.) |
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Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9781138737259 |
Author | : Caroline Wood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317132750 |
From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.
Author | : Rebecca Harris-Warrick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107137896 |
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Author | : Glen Edward Barksdale |
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Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Glen E. Barksdale |
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Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
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ISBN | : 0521823595 |
Author | : Graham Sadler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317022297 |
In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau’s operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature, archival studies, musical analysis, gender studies, ballet and choreography, dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership, including not only scholars but also practical musicians, stage directors, dancers and choreographers.
Author | : Rebecca Harris-Warrick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1316776719 |
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters prevailing notions in operatic historiography that dance was parenthetical and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement - present in every act of every opera - is essential to understanding the work. The book considers the operas of Lully - his lighter works as well as his tragedies - and the 46-year period between the death of Lully and the arrival of Rameau, when influences from the commedia dell'arte and other theatres began to inflect French operatic practices. It explores the intersections of musical, textual, choreographic and staging practices at a complex institution - the Académie Royale de Musique - which upheld as a fundamental aesthetic principle the integration of dance into opera.