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David Charlton, Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France

David Charlton, Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : David Charlton)

This is the first book for a century to attempt to trace the evolution of French opera with spoken dialogue from its origins to its mature years between 1760 and 1790. It is a book of ideas, a history of genre, and a history of performance--both individual performance and the story of the slow formation of a repertory of popular works that emerged by 1760.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Music and spoken theatre
3. Music in Gherardi's company
4. Singing and acting at home
5. Opéra-comique en vaudevilles
6. Experiences of popular theatre
7. Comic and serious themes
8. Performance as history
9. Musical expansion
10. Italian inroads: the King's company
11. Six methods of synthesis
12. A 'Musico-dramatic art'
13. Conclusions.