Author: Charles Antoine LECLERC DE LA BRUÈRE
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Languages : en
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Le Prince de Noisy, Etc
Author: Charles Antoine LECLERC DE LA BRUÈRE
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Languages : en
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From the beginning to 1800
Author: George Saintsbury
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887607
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests
Author: David J. Buch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226078116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226078116
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.
Complete Encyclopædia of Music
Author: John Weeks Moore
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal and Instrumental
Author: John William Moore
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Madame de Pompadour
Author: Nancy Mitford
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor, unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years.
A Dictionary of Musicians
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A Dictionary of Musicians
Author: John S. Sainsbury
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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A dictionary of musicians
Author: Dictionary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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