| List of Plates and Figures |
| | xv | |
| Abbreviations | | xvi | |
| PART I MUSIC AND PUBLIC THEATRE IN PARIS | |
| A. Musical Theatre before French Opera |
| | 3 | (2) |
| | 3 | (2) |
| The Primacy of the Hotel de Bourgogne (1600--1628) |
| | 5 | (10) |
| The Rise of the Theatre du Marais (1629--1658) |
| | 15 | (14) |
| The Golden Age of Parisian Theatre (1658--1669) |
| | 29 | (16) |
| Musical Theatre and the Opera Privilege | | 45 | (115) |
| Competition with the Academie Royale d'Opera (1669--1673) |
| | 45 | (15) |
| The Reorganization of Public Theatre (1673--1680) |
| | 60 | (17) |
| PART II THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN FRENCH PLAYS | |
| A. Comedy, Tragicomedy, and Comedie-Ballet |
| | 73 | (4) |
| | 73 | (4) |
| Relations between French Plays and Ballets |
| | 77 | (5) |
| Music, Dance, and the Performance-within-the-Play |
| | 82 | (66) |
| The Fusion of Comedy and Ballet: L'Amour malade and Les Facheux |
| | 148 | (12) |
| B. The Dramatic Pastorale and Pastorale en Musique | | 160 | (66) |
| | 160 | (3) |
| The Italian Pastorale in France |
| | 163 | (8) |
| Music in the Early French Pastorale |
| | 171 | (17) |
| From Pastoral Comedy to Pastorale en Musique |
| | 188 | (38) |
| C. The Mythological Pastorale and Pastoral Opera | | 226 | (209) |
| | 226 | (4) |
| Music in the Early Mythological Pastorale |
| | 230 | (13) |
| The Musical World of the Mythological Machine Play |
| | 243 | (50) |
| The Beginnings of French Opera |
| | 293 | (44) |
| PART III MUSIC AND THE THEATRE OF MOLIERE | |
| | 323 | (7) |
| A. Moliere's Comedies-Ballets on the Public Stage |
| | 330 | (7) |
| | 330 | (7) |
| The Public Reception of a Court Success: La Princesse d'Elide |
| | 337 | (17) |
| Comic Vision and Revision in Le Mariage force and Le Sicilien |
| | 354 | (28) |
| Le Malade imaginaire and Its Revisions |
| | 382 | (16) |
| Musical Practices in Moliere's Theatre |
| | 398 | (18) |
| | 416 | (1) |
| Appropriation, Parody, and the Birth of Opera: Lully's Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus and Moliere's Le Malade imaginaire |
| | 416 | (19) |
| Appendix A Secular Plays with Music, 1600--1680 | | 435 | (5) |
| Appendix B Index of Sung Lyrics | | 440 | (13) |
| Appendix C Dramatic Examples | | 453 | (86) |
| Bibliography | | 539 | (20) |
| Index | | 559 | |
