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Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1107137896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781316778036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. This book 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 is essential to understanding the work. The book considers the operas of Lully 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 Academie Royale de Musique - which upheld as a fundamental aesthetic principle the integration of dance into opera.
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1316776719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 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.
Author: John S. Powell
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780198165996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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.
Author: Bruce Haynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-07-20
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0195189876
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Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781009011754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.
Author: Buford Norman
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781883479350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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.
Author: Caroline Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317132769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: John D. Lyons
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 907
ISBN-13: 0190678445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBaroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.
Author: Hedy Law
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 178327560X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?
