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Author : Glen Edward Barksdale
Release : 1974
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The chorus in French Baroque opera by : Glen Edward Barksdale
Download or read book The chorus in French Baroque opera written by Glen Edward Barksdale. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glen E. Barksdale
Release : 1984
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Download or read book The chorus in French baroque opera written by Glen E. Barksdale. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Wood
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis French Baroque Opera: A Reader by : Caroline Wood
Download or read book French Baroque Opera: A Reader written by Caroline Wood. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2016-10-27
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 896/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Download or read book Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Release : 2016-10-27
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Download or read book Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
