The Bals Public At The Paris Opera 1716 1763
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The Bals Publics at the Paris Opéra in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Richard Templar Semmens |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781576470343 |
The range of possibilities for what was termed a ball in eighteenth-century France was quite considerable. At one extreme were the carefully regulated bals parés at the other were the elaborately staged bals masqués. Alternatively, a bal could also be an entirely impromptu affair. Throughout this colorful range of possibilities, the repertoire of dance styles and types was generally shared: danses figures, new as well as old, for couples; and group dances, among which the contredanse reigned supreme.There was another kind of ball, however, that has not yet been examined systematically by scholars. The bals publics held at the opera house in Paris were initiated not long after Louis XIV's death in 1715, and remained popular until the fall of the ancienne régime. This book explores the advent and early development of the bal public through 1763, when a fire destroyed the home of the Académie Royale de Musique (the 'Opera'). The bal public was unlike any other kind of ball, although, as with bals masqués, those in attendance were masked. This study aims, in part, to explore how the bal public might have influenced social dancing more generally. By 1744, there was a dramatic shift in social modeling from the royal balls at Versailles (and elsewhere) to the public balls at the Opera.
Watteau, Music, and Theater
Author | : Antoine Watteau |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Artists and theater |
ISBN | : 1588393356 |
"Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included."--Publisher description.
Listening in Paris
Author | : James H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520206487 |
This book grew from a simple question. Why did French audiences become silent? Eighteenth-century travelers' accounts of the Paris Opera and memoirs of concertgoers describe a busy, preoccupied public, at times loud and at others merely sociable, but seldom deeply attentive.
Beyond Bach
Author | : Andrew Talle |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252099346 |
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author | : Edward Rodolphus Lambert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Branford (Conn. : Town) |
ISBN | : |
History of Berlin, Connecticut
Author | : Catharine Melinda North |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Berlin (Conn.) |
ISBN | : |
Historic Paris
Author | : Jetta Sophia Wolff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
The Black Jacobins
Author | : C.L.R. James |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593687337 |
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
The Doolittle Family in America
Author | : William Frederick Doolittle |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics Trade Press |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2018-11-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780344989230 |
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