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- catalog abstract ""This is the first study to recognize the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XlV as a vehicle for absolutism, the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time, and the long-term development of opera in eighteenth-century humanist culture. He argues that French opera moved away from the politics of the absolute monarchy in which it originated to address Enlightenment concerns with sensibility and feeling. The book combines close readings of significant seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century operatic works, and circumstantial writings and theoretical works on theater and opera, together with a measure of reception history. Thomas examines key works by Lully, Rameau, and Charpentier, among others, and extends his reach from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13124432.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This is the first study to recognize the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XlV as a vehicle for absolutism, the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time, and the long-term development of opera in eighteenth-century humanist culture. He argues that French opera moved away from the politics of the absolute monarchy in which it originated to address Enlightenment concerns with sensibility and feeling. The book combines close readings of significant seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century operatic works, and circumstantial writings and theoretical works on theater and opera, together with a measure of reception history. Thomas examines key works by Lully, Rameau, and Charpentier, among others, and extends his reach from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-404) and index.".
- catalog description "Pt. 1. French opera in the shadow of tragedy. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera; The Opera King ; The ascendance of music and the disintegration of the hero in Armide ; The disruption of poetics I: Médée's excessive voice ; The disruption of poetics II: Hippolyte et Aricie and the reinvention of tragedy -- Pt. 2. Opera and Enlightenment: from private sensation to public feeling. Heart strings ; Music, sympathy and identification at the Opéra-Comique ; Architectural visions of lyric theater and spectatorship ; Opera and common sense: Lacépède's Poétique de la musique.".
- catalog extent "viii, 411 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521801885".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in opera".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment France.".
- catalog subject "ML3858 .T46 2002".
- catalog subject "Music France Philosophy and aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Music and state France History.".
- catalog subject "Opera France 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Opera France 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. 1. French opera in the shadow of tragedy. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera; The Opera King ; The ascendance of music and the disintegration of the hero in Armide ; The disruption of poetics I: Médée's excessive voice ; The disruption of poetics II: Hippolyte et Aricie and the reinvention of tragedy -- Pt. 2. Opera and Enlightenment: from private sensation to public feeling. Heart strings ; Music, sympathy and identification at the Opéra-Comique ; Architectural visions of lyric theater and spectatorship ; Opera and common sense: Lacépède's Poétique de la musique.".
- catalog title "Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 / Downing A. Thomas.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".