Author: Henry PrunièresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
La Vie Illustre Et Libertine de Jean-Baptiste Lully
Author: Henry PrunièresLA Vie Illustre Et Libertine De Jean-Baptiste Lully
Author: Henry PrunieresPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404601867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
La Vie Illustre Et Libertine de Jean-Baptiste Lully
Author: Henry PrunièresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Triumph of Music
Author: Tim BlanningPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674417275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among the creative arts? Mozart was literally booted out of the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg “with a kick to my arse,” as he expressed it. Yet, less than a hundred years later, Europe’s most powerful ruler—Emperor William I of Germany—paid homage to Wagner by traveling to Bayreuth to attend the debut of The Ring. Today Bono, who was touted as the next president of the World Bank in 2006, travels the world, advising politicians—and they seem to listen. The path to fame and independence began when new instruments allowed musicians to showcase their creativity, and music publishing allowed masterworks to be performed widely in concert halls erected to accommodate growing public interest. No longer merely an instrument to celebrate the greater glory of a reigning sovereign or Supreme Being, music was, by the nineteenth century, to be worshipped in its own right. In the twentieth century, new technological, social, and spatial forces combined to make music ever more popular and ubiquitous. In a concluding chapter, Tim Blanning considers music in conjunction with nationalism, race, and sex. Although not always in step, music, society, and politics, he shows, march in the same direction.
Molière
Author: Virginia ScottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521012386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This biography of Molière was first published in 2000 and will appeal to general reader and specialists in French and Theatre Studies.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Author: Ralph Henry Forster ScottPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The first biography in English of the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, an important figure in the history of music as the originator of French opera and the leading impresario of his day.
Backstage at the Revolution
Author: Victoria JohnsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226401952
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history. Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots of the Opera’s survival in its identity as a uniquely privileged icon of French culture—an identity established by the conditions of its founding one hundred years earlier under Louis XIV. Johnson’s rich cultural history moves between both epochs, taking readers backstage to see how a motley crew of singers, dancers, royal ministers, poet entrepreneurs, shady managers, and the king of France all played a part in the creation and preservation of one of the world’s most fabled cultural institutions.
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music
Author: Joseph P. SwainPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538151626
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - "Bravo! An invaluable source for scholars and concertgoers.” - Library Journal In the history of the Western musical tradition, the Baroque period traditionally dates from the turn of the 17th century to 1750. The beginning of the period is marked by Italian experiments in composition that attempted to create a new kind of secular musical art based upon principles of Greek drama, quickly leading to the invention of opera. The ending is marked by the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 and the completion of George Frideric Handel’s last English oratorio, Jephtha, the following year. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on composers, instruments, cities, and technical terms. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about baroque music.
The Motets of Jean-Baptiste Lully
Author: William Powell ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motets
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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.