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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

By: Rebecca Harris-Warrick

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

By: Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

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1107137896

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Curious and Modern Inventions

Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

By: Rebecca Cypess

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Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

By: Rebecca Cypess

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition—but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully explored. Curious and Modern Inventions offers fresh insight into the motivating forces behind this music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts—whether musical, artistic, or scientific—as vehicles of discovery. Rebecca Cypess shows that early modern thinkers were fascinated with instrumental technologies. The telescope, the clock, the pen, the lute—these were vital instruments for leading thinkers of the age, from Galileo Galilei to Giambattista Marino. No longer used merely to remake an object or repeat a process already known, instruments were increasingly seen as tools for open-ended inquiry that would lead to new knowledge. Engaging with themes from the history of science, literature, and the visual arts, this study reveals the intimate connections between instrumental music and the scientific and artisanal tools that served to mediate between individuals and the world around them.

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University of Chicago Press

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022631958X

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9780226319582

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

A History

By: Rebecca Harris-Warrick

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

A History

By: Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters prevailing notions in operatic historiography that dance was parenthetical and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement - present in every act of every opera - is essential to understanding the work. The book considers the operas of Lully - his lighter works as well as his tragedies - and the 46-year period between the death of Lully and the arrival of Rameau, when influences from the commedia dell'arte and other theatres began to inflect French operatic practices. It explores the intersections of musical, textual, choreographic and staging practices at a complex institution - the Académie Royale de Musique - which upheld as a fundamental aesthetic principle the integration of dance into opera.

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

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