Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989-02-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521352635

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
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.

Lully Studies

Lully Studies
Author: John Hajdu Heyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521621830

Presents the best research on the life and work of Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The Cambridge Companion to French Music

The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521877946

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

Music and the Language of Love

Music and the Language of Love
Author: Catherine Gordon-Seifert
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253000858

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.

French Opera

French Opera
Author: Vincent Giroud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Opera
ISBN: 9780300117653

"A brilliant overview of the history of French opera, scrupulously researched and eminently readable. The people, the politics, the scandalsûinformative and entertaining."-Richard Bonynge AO, CBE --

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ

The Cambridge Companion to the Organ
Author: Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1999-03-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107494036

This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organ and its music. It examines in turn the instrument, the player and the repertoire. The early chapters tell of the instrument's history and construction, identify the scientific basis of its sounds and the development of its pitch and tuning, examine the history of the organ case, and consider the current trends and conflicts within the world of organ building. Central chapters investigate the practical art of learning and playing the organ, introduce the complex area of performance practice, and outline the relationship between organ playing and the liturgy of the church. The final section explores the vast repertoire of organ music, focusing on a selection of the most important traditions.

Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680

Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680
Author: John S. Powell
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198165996

During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and theatre of the ancien régime, historians have largely neglected the importance of music and dance. This study defines the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and mythological and non-mythological pastoral drama, from the arrival of the first repertory companies in Paris until the establishment of the Comédie-Française.

Five Lives in Music

Five Lives in Music
Author: Cecelia Hopkins Porter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252037014

A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the twentieth century brought forth two exceptional women: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess.

Touched by the Graces

Touched by the Graces
Author: Buford Norman
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781883479350

After situating the libretti in the context of French classicism, the author first discusses the prologues to the Quinault-Lully operas, then devotes a chapter to each of the libretti in which he examines such traditional literary elements as performance history, plot, characterization, and style, as well as issues more specifically related to musical theater. The concluding chapter summarizes what opera can tell us about French classicism and explores in depth some of the key theoretical issues such as representation, imitation, and recognition.