390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
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The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opéra comique to early grand opera. ’Media’ is interpreted in terms of both narrative systems and practical theatre resources. One group of... Read more
Contents: The romance and its cognates: narrative, irony and vraisemblance in early opéra-comique; Continuing polarities: Opera theory and opéra-comique; Orchestra and chorus at the Comédie-Italienne (Opéra-Comique), 1755-1799; The overture to Philidor’s Le Bûcheron (1763); ’Envoicing’ the orchestra: Enlightenment metaphors in theory and practice; ’Minuet-scenes’ in early opéra-comique; Motive and motif: Méhul before 1791; Motif and recollection in four operas of Dalayrac; The French theatrical origins of Fidelio; Storms, sacrifices: the ’Melodrama Model’ in Opera; Ossian, Le Sueur and opera; The dramaturgy of ’Grand Opéra’: some origins; On the nature of ’Grand Opera’; ’A maître d’orchestre... conducts’: new and old evidence on French practice; Index.
Biography
David Charlton
'Ashgate should be commended for their commitment to scholarship of distinction...' Music and Letters '... a volume of which no-one involved in opera of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should remain unaware.' Current Musicology
