Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

ISBN-13: 9780521100977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 420 str.

Downing A. Thomas

Opis

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.