Opera-comique : a sourcebook / Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opéra-Comique (Paris, France).

Opéra comique.

Opera--France.

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (881 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Opéra-comique, like grand opéra, a specifically French genre of opera, emerged from the political changes and intellectual discussion that played a recurrent role in determining the nature of artistic expression and production in Paris from the late 17th until the mid-18th centuries. Opéra-comique is distinguished by its use of spoken dialogue to link the arias and sung parts, and its more restrained use of recitatives. It emerged out of the popular entertainments, called opéras-comiques en...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A CHRONOLOGY OF THE OPÉRA-COMIQUE; COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORKS AT THE OPÉRA-COMIQUE; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Letellier, Robert Ignatius. Opera-comique : a sourcebook.

ISBN:

1-282-77640-1

9786612776403

1-4438-2168-3

OCLC:

827209278