Author : Caroline Wood
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : Music
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French Baroque Opera: A Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Baroque Opera: A Reader write by Caroline Wood. This book was released on 2017-07-14. French Baroque Opera: A Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.