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Music and theatre in France, 1600-1680

"This study explores the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and the pastorale, from the arrival of the first travelling repertory companies in Paris around 1600 until the establishment of the Comedie-Francaise in 1680. The dynamic interaction of spoken drama with music, mime, and dance - cross-fertilized by court ballet and imported Italian opera - gave birth to a set of musical conventions that informed the piece en machines, the pastorale en musique, and early French opera
Print Book, English, 2000
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 582 pages cm : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780198165996, 0198165994
39116571
List of Plates and Figures
xv
Abbreviationsxvi
PART I MUSIC AND PUBLIC THEATRE IN PARIS
A. Musical Theatre before French Opera
3(2)
Introduction
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 Privilege45(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)
Introduction
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 Musique160(66)
Introduction
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 Opera226(209)
Introduction
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
Introduction
323(7)
A. Moliere's Comedies-Ballets on the Public Stage
330(7)
Introduction
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)
B. Epilogue
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--1680435(5)
Appendix B Index of Sung Lyrics440(13)
Appendix C Dramatic Examples453(86)
Bibliography539(20)
Index559