Author: Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214151
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate's student, Agis, who is the legitimate prin
The Triumph of Love
Author: Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214151
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate's student, Agis, who is the legitimate prin
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214151
Category : Disguise
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
THE STORY: Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate's student, Agis, who is the legitimate prin
Le Triomphe de l'Amour. Ballet, etc. By I. de Beuserade and P. Quinault
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Love in the Theatre of Marivaux
Author: Valentini Papadopoulou Brady
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035057
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600035057
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Lottery of Love
Author: Pierre Marivaux
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571339247
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
You'd laugh if I treated you with the respect I feel.An eligible suitor has been found for Sylvia but, determined to judge him for herself, she swaps roles with her maid. Meanwhile the suitor and his manservant have the same idea. Before long each believes they are fatally attracted to their social opposite. Sylvia's well-intentioned father looks on as the two couples attempt to make sense of their desires and ultimately lose themselves to love. From eighteenth-century France, John Fowles transports us to Regency England in this elegant adaptation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Marivaux's greatest comedy. The Lottery of Love premiered at the Orange Tree, Richmond, in March 2017.This book contains an introduction by John Fowles.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571339247
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
You'd laugh if I treated you with the respect I feel.An eligible suitor has been found for Sylvia but, determined to judge him for herself, she swaps roles with her maid. Meanwhile the suitor and his manservant have the same idea. Before long each believes they are fatally attracted to their social opposite. Sylvia's well-intentioned father looks on as the two couples attempt to make sense of their desires and ultimately lose themselves to love. From eighteenth-century France, John Fowles transports us to Regency England in this elegant adaptation of Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Marivaux's greatest comedy. The Lottery of Love premiered at the Orange Tree, Richmond, in March 2017.This book contains an introduction by John Fowles.
Touched by the Graces
Author: Buford Norman
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479350
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
After situating the libretti in the context of French classicism, the author first discusses the prologues to the Quinault-Lully operas, then devotes a chapter to each of the libretti in which he examines such traditional literary elements as performance history, plot, characterization, and style, as well as issues more specifically related to musical theater. The concluding chapter summarizes what opera can tell us about French classicism and explores in depth some of the key theoretical issues such as representation, imitation, and recognition.
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479350
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
After situating the libretti in the context of French classicism, the author first discusses the prologues to the Quinault-Lully operas, then devotes a chapter to each of the libretti in which he examines such traditional literary elements as performance history, plot, characterization, and style, as well as issues more specifically related to musical theater. The concluding chapter summarizes what opera can tell us about French classicism and explores in depth some of the key theoretical issues such as representation, imitation, and recognition.
Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107137896
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107137896
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Dance and Music of Court and Theater
Author: Wendy Hilton
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This collection of selected writings of Ms. Hilton includes a complete facsimile of her 1981 book Dance of Court & Theater (no longer available) as well as two significant articles, and a notated triple-meter danse � deux by LouisP�cour. Book One (the facsimile) provides in-depth analysis of primary sources on dance of the baroque period.The main body of the text is devoted to mastery of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system,which includes the relationships of steps to music in such dance types as the menuet,gavotte, bourr�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This collection of selected writings of Ms. Hilton includes a complete facsimile of her 1981 book Dance of Court & Theater (no longer available) as well as two significant articles, and a notated triple-meter danse � deux by LouisP�cour. Book One (the facsimile) provides in-depth analysis of primary sources on dance of the baroque period.The main body of the text is devoted to mastery of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system,which includes the relationships of steps to music in such dance types as the menuet,gavotte, bourr�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Easter-Mystères
Author: John Denison Champlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Easter-Mystr̈es
Author: John Denison Champlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Monsters of the Gévaudan
Author: Jay M. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674047168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature whose deadly efficiency mesmerized Europe. Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits this spellbinding tale and offers the definitive explanation for its mythic status in French folklore.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674047168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature whose deadly efficiency mesmerized Europe. Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits this spellbinding tale and offers the definitive explanation for its mythic status in French folklore.