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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Downing A. Thomas. ; Downing A Thomas |
ISBN: | 0521801885 9780521801881 |
OCLC Number: | 49530155 |
Description: | viii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | pt. I. French opera in the shadow of tragedy -- 1. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera -- 2. The Opera King -- 3. The ascendance of music and the disintegration of the hero in Armide -- 4. The disruption of poetics I: Medee's excessive voice -- 5. The disruption of poetics II: Hippolyte et Aricie and the reinvention of tragedy -- pt. II. Opera and Enlightenment: from private sensation to public feeling -- 6. Heart strings -- 7. Music, sympathy, and identification at the Opera-Comique -- 8. Architectural visions of lyric theater and spectatorship -- 9. Opera and common sense: Lacepede's Poetique de la musique. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in opera. |
Responsibility: | Downing A. Thomas. |
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Review of the hardback: '... the attraction and usefulness of this work is that Thomas specifically avoids falling back on hackneyed texts and does not slavishly retrace other's steps through reams of over-analysed material.' Eighteenth-Century Music "It goes beyond strict musical analysis and examines these oeuvres and their contexts from a broad cultural perspective, drawing on the writings of contemporary philosophers and commentators." Opera Quarterly "This book is not an easy read, but any time spent between its covers will be amply rewarded.... a fluently written study that moves smoothly across the decades to become a cultural history of French opera from its origins to the Revolution.... Highly recommended." Choice "Like a handy toolbox for singers and teachers, Miller's book provides detailed, well-rounded discussions of vocal technique, pedagogical issues, and performance concerns in one place, a rare scenario. As wel, the appendices are excellent for quick reference about vocal repertoire and IPA symbols. A must-have for anyone involved in the vocal field." -- Opera Journal "Thomas provides an excellent distillation of the conflict between seventeenth-century writers who championed staged tragedy and those who welcomed and defended tragedie en musique. Downing Thomas' book is an important addition to the study of the development of French opera, particularly for its blend of historical, philosophical, cultural, and critical studies." Opera Today, Deborah Kauffman, University of Northern Colorado "Rather than answering all the questions raised closing off all possibilities, Thomas opens up new insights, draws together interesting primary sources, and engages in dialog with secondary literature from several disciplines." Notes Read more...


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- Opera -- France -- 17th century.
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