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Building the operatic museum : eighteenth-century opera in fin-de-siècle Paris / William Gibbons.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1727.4 .G53 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbons, William (William James), 1981- author.
- Series:
- Eastman studies in music ; v. 99.
- Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; v. 99
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764.
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Opera--France--Paris--19th century.
- Opera.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- France--Paris.
- Opera--18th century.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald.
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2013.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the Operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum-a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works of visual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature. Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Museums
- Mozart: Restorations ; (De)translations ; Transitions
- Gluck: Resurrections ; Tragedies ; Symbols
- Rameau: Monuments ; Quarrels ; Archaeologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580464000
- 1580464009
- OCLC:
- 810119748
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