Two decades after the publication of several landmark scholarly collections on music and difference, musicology has largely accepted difference-based scholarship. This collection of essays by distinguished international contributors is a major contribution to the field. It explores and re-evaluates the key issues and includes individual case studies and methodologies.
Two decades after the publication of several landmark scholarly collections on music and difference, musicology has largely accepted difference-based ...
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragedie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera's political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule, but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over...
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its t...
