Title: Jean-Philippe Rameau: his life and work /
Authors: Girdlestone, Cuthbert,
Date: 1969
Publisher: Dover Publications,
Physical description: x, 631 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: 1. Life: the first fifty years -- 2. Chamber music -- 3. Cantatas and motets -- 4. Lulli's Tragedie en musique -- 5. Hippolyte et Aricie and Rameau's Tragedie en musique -- 6. Castor et Pollux -- 7. Dardanus -- 8. The later Tragedies en musique -- 9. Les Indes Galantes and Rameau's Opera-Ballet -- 10. Les Fetes d'Hebe and Rameau's pastoral music -- 11. Platee and Comedie Lyrique -- 12. Minor works -- 13. Life: the last thirty years -- 14. Theories -- 15. Rameau and Gluck -- 16. Conclusion.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Composers--France--Biography; Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764.