Author: David CharltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David CharltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David CharltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139789066
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's origins and influences in the 1740s and goes on to use past and present research to create a new structural model that explains the elements of reform in Gluck's tragédies for Paris. Charlton's book opens many new perspectives on the musical practices and politics of the period, including the Querelle des Bouffons. It gives the first detailed account of intermezzi and opere buffe performed by Eustachio Bambini's troupe at the Paris Opéra from August 1752 to February 1754 and discusses Rameau's comedies Platée and Les Paladins and their origins.
A Complete Dictionary of Music
Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Critic
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon
Author: Cormac NewarkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190224215
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Author: Jean Jacques RousseauPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This book is an autobiography written by a Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The content of this book is divided into ten "Walks" or chapters. The book's subject matter is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of the scenery, particularly plants, that Rousseau saw on his walks around Paris, and explanations and extensions of assertions previously made by Rousseau in fields such as education and political philosophy. The work is characterized by tranquility and resignation in large parts, but it also refers to Rousseau's recognition of the negative effects of persecution towards the end of his life.
Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France
Author: Olivia BloechlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.
Musical Theater in Eighteenth-century Parma
Author: Margaret R. ButlerPublisher: Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN: 1580469019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Doctrine of the Arts
Author: Philip RobinsonPublisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the first book to set out comprehensively Rousseau's theoretical statements on the arts: music and opera, theatre, fiction, poetry, the visual arts and dance. These statements are seen in terms of the phases of his intellectual development: the early years, the social criticism of the 1750s, the future-orientated theory of Emile and other texts, and finally the increasing self-scrutiny. This approach, conscious at all times of the element of personal commitment in his thinking, permits a sympathetic understanding, if not a resolution, of the famous paradoxes. The chief of these, his simultaneous condemnation and practice of drama, music and literature, is seen less as a personal contradiction than as a pointer to the ills of society which outrage him. Despite the huge social, political and economic upheavals since his death in 1778, Rousseau emerges as a thinker who has much to teach those concerned for the health of the arts in a modern world and for the moral values which attend them.