French Baroque Opera
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781840142419
Subjects: Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General; Music Of The 18th Century; Opera; Music; 17th century; 18th century; France; Sources
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.