Author: Joyce Enith Watkins NewmanPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste de Lully and His Tragédies Lyriques
Author: Joyce Enith Watkins NewmanPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
Author: James R. AnthonyPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670219
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.
The Theatre of Praise
Author: Joanne AltieriPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874132755
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A critical examination of panegyrical theatre from its beginnings in the masque, city pageant, and history plays to its varied culmination on the Restoration musical stage.
The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques
Author: Carl B. SchmidtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. AnthonyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521352635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.
Lully Studies
Author: John Hajdu HeyerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521621830
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Presents the best research on the life and work of Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Journal of the Conductors' Guild
Author: Touched by the Graces
Author: Buford NormanPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479350
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
After 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.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald J. GroutPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231507720
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1047
Book Description
When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.
The Pastorale Héroïque
Author: David M. PowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description