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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Charlton, David, 1946- French opera, 1730-1830. Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, ©2000 (OCoLC)639587018 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Charlton |
ISBN: | 0860787826 9780860787822 |
OCLC Number: | 42002791 |
Notes: | Consists of fourteen essays published 1976-1999; three are revised, and two of these are also English versions originally published in French or German. |
Description: | 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | The romance and its Cognates: Narrative, Irony and vraisemblance in Early opera comique (Die Opera comique und ihr Einflusz auf das europaische Musiktheater im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Herbert Schneider and Nicole Wild. Hildesheim, 1997) -- Continuing Polarities: Opera Theory and opera-comique (Expanded from Kein Ende der Gegensatze: Operntheorien und opera comique. Text und Musik: Neue Perspektiven der Theorie, ed. Michael Walter. Munich, 1992) -- Orchestra and Chorus at the Comedie-Italienne (Opera-Comique), 1755-1799 (Slavonic and Western Music: Essays for Gerald Abraham, ed. Malcolm Hamrick Brown and Roland John Wiley. Ann Arbor and Oxford, 1985) -- The Overture to Philidor's Le Bucheron (1763) (D'Un Opera l'autre: Hommage a Jean Mongredien, ed. Jean Gribenski, Marie-Claire Mussat and Herbert Schneider. Paris, 1996) -- 'Envoicing' the Orchestra: Enlightenment Metaphors in Theory and Practice (Expanded from L'orchestre et la metaphore du vivant de Mozart. Mozart: Les chemins de l'Europe, ed. Brigitte Massin. Strasbourg, 1997) -- 'Minuet-scenes' in Early opera-comique (Timbre und Vaudeville. Zur Geschichte und Problematik einer popularen Gattung im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Herbert Schneider. Hildesheim, 1999) -- Motive and Motif: Mehul before 1791 (Music and Letters 57. Oxford, 1976) -- Motif and Recollection in Four Operas of Dalayrac (Soundings 7. Cardiff, 1978) -- The French Theatrical Origins of Fidelio (Ludwig van Beethoven: 'Fidelio', ed. Paul Robinson. Cambridge, 1996). |
Series Title: | Collected studies, CS634. |
Responsibility: | David Charlton. |
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