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Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
R. J. Arnold
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Description for Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
Hardback. The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French cultural life seethed with debates about the proper nature and form of musical expression, particularly in opera. Expressed in a flood of pamphlets, articles, letters and poems as well as in the actual disruption of performances, these so-called querelles were seen at the time as a distinctively French phenomenon and have been mined by scholars since for what they can tell us about French politics and culture in the revolutionary period. This is the first full-length treatment of the entire history of this phenomenon, from its beginnings in ... Read more
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French cultural life seethed with debates about the proper nature and form of musical expression, particularly in opera. Expressed in a flood of pamphlets, articles, letters and poems as well as in the actual disruption of performances, these so-called querelles were seen at the time as a distinctively French phenomenon and have been mined by scholars since for what they can tell us about French politics and culture in the revolutionary period. This is the first full-length treatment of the entire history of this phenomenon, from its beginnings in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783272013
SKU
V9781783272013
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Reviews for Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
Contains more than enough to provoke a new generation of readers into exploring the social dissonances of France. FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE [An] admirable and probing study. THE MUSICAL TIMES