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Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

Thomas, Downing A.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera

OperaMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0521801885
ISBN13: 9780521801881
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 27 2003
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
This is the first study to recognize the wider picture of opera within early-modern French culture. Downing Thomas considers the place of music within a cultural environment--the employment of music by Louis XIV as a symbol of absolutism; the use of music as a statement against the monarchy; and the long-term development of opera as a reflection of humanism. 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.

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