Dance And Drama In French Baroque Opera

Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dance in opera
ISBN : 1316777812

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by Rebecca Harris-Warrick Pdf

Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. This book exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters prevailing notions in operatic historiography that dance was parenthetical and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement is essential to understanding the work. The book considers the operas of Lully and the 46-year period between the death of Lully and the arrival of Rameau, when influences from the commedia dell'arte and other theatres began to inflect French operatic practices. It explores the intersections of musical, textual, choreographic and staging practices at a complex institution - the Academie Royale de Musique - which upheld as a fundamental aesthetic principle the integration of dance into opera.

Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107137899

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by Rebecca Harris-Warrick Pdf

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

Author : Caroline Wood,Graham Sadler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317132769

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French Baroque Opera: A Reader by Caroline Wood,Graham Sadler Pdf

From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.

Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190678449

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The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque by John D. Lyons Pdf

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Author : Hedy Law
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9781783275601

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Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France by Hedy Law Pdf

How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?

Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Bruce Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299203549

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The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-century Stage by Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Bruce Alan Brown Pdf

Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the style known as "grotesque"—a virtuoso style that combined French ballet technique with a vigorous athleticism that made Italian dancers in demand all over Europe. Gennaro Magri’s Trattato teorico-prattico di ballo, the only work from the eighteenth century that explains the practices of midcentury Italian theatrical dancing, is a starting point for investigating this influential type of ballet and its connections to the operatic and theatrical genres of its day. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage examines the theatrical world of the ballerino grottesco, Magri’s own career as a dancer in Italy and Vienna, the genre of pantomime ballet as it was practiced by Magri and his colleagues across Europe, the relationships between dance and pantomime in this type of work, the music used to accompany pantomime ballets, and the movement vocabulary of the grotesque dancer. Appendices contain scenarios from eighteenth-century pantomime ballets, including several of Magri’s own devising; an index to the step-vocabulary discussed in Magri’s book; and an index of dancers in Italy known to have performed as grotteschi. Illustrations, music examples, and dance notations also supplement the text.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521823593

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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : John S. Powell
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0198165994

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Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680 by John S. Powell Pdf

During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and theatre of the ancien régime, historians have largely neglected the importance of music and dance. This study defines the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and mythological and non-mythological pastoral drama, from the arrival of the first repertory companies in Paris until the establishment of the Comédie-Française.

Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538151624

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Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music by Joseph P. Swain Pdf

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.

Author : Olivia Bloechl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226522890

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France by Olivia Bloechl Pdf

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.

Author : Viktoria Franić Tomić,Slobodan Prosperov Novak,Ennio Stipčević
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783990127995

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The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre by Viktoria Franić Tomić,Slobodan Prosperov Novak,Ennio Stipčević Pdf

Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century. In the "Golden Age of Croatian Literature", a hybrid drama genre was created. For more than a century, authors of this genre looked attentively at the most important trends of Italian opera production and followed them faithfully. In Croatian literature of that period, a specific model of libretti without music was created, one that appropriated the Italian libretto. These plays were not performed along with functional music, although sometimes authors and actors would provide instrumental accompaniment to the texts. Nothing more needs to be said about the dissemination and specific reception of Italian opera libretti in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century to be understood as occupying a noteworthy place in the cultural life of Europe.

Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Carol G. Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521020220

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Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV by Rebecca Harris-Warrick,Carol G. Marsh Pdf

Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance to the study of French Baroque dance. This facsimile reproduction of the entire manuscript is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the work itself and the context in which it was created and performed. Dated 1688, it provides a wealth of new and detailed information on numerous aspects of theatrical dance. It differs from the known choreographic sources in many respects, the two most important being the completeness of all its components--choreography, music, and text--and the use of a previously unknown dance notation system.

Author : Graham Sadler,Shirley Thompson,Jonathan Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317022299

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The Operas of Rameau by Graham Sadler,Shirley Thompson,Jonathan Williams Pdf

In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau’s operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature, archival studies, musical analysis, gender studies, ballet and choreography, dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership, including not only scholars but also practical musicians, stage directors, dancers and choreographers.

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1009011758

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Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France by David Charlton Pdf

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.

Author : Don Fader
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276288

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Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, C.1700 by Don Fader Pdf

This study stems from discoveries in a trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudâemont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of other sources - letters, diaries, treatises, libretti, scores - offer a vivid new picture of musical life in Paris and Milan as well as exchanges between France and Italy. The book is both a patronage study and an examination of the contributions by - and the difficulties facing - musicians and dancers who worked across national and cultural boundaries. Music, Dance, and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 follows the careers of the prince and the French violinist and composer Michel Pignolet de Montâeclair. In the context of a renewed fascination with Italian music in the 1690s, Montâeclair made a name for himself in Paris as a pedagogue and composer who understood both national styles and blended them in a way that was successful on French terms. Vaudâemont hired Montâeclair to direct a French violin band and to compose dance music for a series of new operas that observers declared "the best in Italy" but are virtually unknown today. These productions involved collaborations among a mixed company of French and Italian musicians, dancers, composers, and librettists modeled on the practice of Turinese court operas. The book is an account of the contributions of these figures to the cultural life of Paris, Milan, and other northern Italian states, and to the creative mixing of musical styles, operatic conventions, and dance technique in France and Italy through the 1720s and beyond.