The operas of Rameau : genesis, staging, reception / edited by Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson and Jonathan Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadler, Graham, editor.

Thompson, Shirley, 1966- editor.

Williams, Jonathan Huw, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Ashgate Interdisciplinary studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764--Criticism and interpretation.

Rameau, Jean-Philippe.

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764.

Composers--France--Criticism and interpretation.

Composers.

Opera--France--18th century.

Opera.

Criticism and interpretation.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 310 pages) : illustrations, music.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli de Bibiena's Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735) / Francesca Pagani

Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat / Françoise Escande and Benoi̊t Dratwicki

Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France / Thierry Favier

Jean-Philippe Rameau's Art d'aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Englightenment / Raphaëlle Legrand

Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau's Io, Zéphire and Nélée et Mirthis / Thomas Soury

The triumph of generosity, or "Let's make an opera-ballet" / Roger Savage

New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruère and Rameau / Marie Demeilliez

A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni in Rameau's "Anacréon" (1757) / Graham Sadler

Recreating Rameau: Jacques-Simon Mangot and his role in Parma / Margaret R. Butler

An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville / Thomas Leconte

"Objet d'étude et de curiosité": Candeille's Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791-1817 / R.J. Arnold

The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau's Les Indes galantes / Laura Naudeix

Staging time and space in Rameau's tragédies en musique / Lois Rosow

Stage sets and music in Rameau's operas / Rémy-Michel Trotier

Do Rameau's dances "impose physical movement"?: a collaborative exploration / Hubert Hazebroucq and Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Through the Mercure's lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opéra / Thomas Green

Rameau's operas on disc / Patrick Florentin.

Notes:

Appendix with a list of Rameau's operas on LP, CD, and DVD disc (pages 285-299)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315554990

1315554992

Publisher Number:

40030899332

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