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Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 June 2001
- ISBN 9780198166979
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 242x163x20 mm
- Weight 552 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 music examples 0
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Short description:
This examines in new ways opera and ballet criticism in early nineteenth-century France, taking seriously the motivations and beliefs of journalist critics. Rather than seeing their work as useful primarily for its raw factual information, the essays collected here look carefully at the historical, cultural, and aesthetic background that led critics to write as they did.
MoreLong description:
This book is among the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth century both as a historical and a literary phenomenon. It thus provides a new and badly needed perspective for scholars and other commentators who have often been willing to treat the journalistic responses to such musical genres chiefly as a simple source of factual information. The essays, taken from a conference in Oxford in 1996, explore the kinds of problem encountered and the types of methodology that might be employed in trying to interpret these critical responses; they throw light on such aspects as the cultural attitudes underlying the writers' rhetoric, the aesthetic stances and ideological agendas at play, and how modes of production influenced content.
... important collection of essays ... the collection offers a rich, nuanced picture of French music and culture 'from the Revolution to 1848'... the essays are strong scholarly contributions that realize the major goal of enriching and 'complicating' the historical picture - and they do so with thoughtfulness and imagination.
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: Reading Critics
A Dilettante at the Opera: Issues in the Criticism of Julien-Louis Geoffroy, 1800-1814
The Professional Dilletante: Ludovic Vitet and Le Globe
Gluck, Berlioz, and Castil-Blaze: The Poetics and Reception of French Opera
II: Reading Grand Opéra
Robert le Diable and Louis-Philippe the King
Ceremony, Celebration, and Spectacle in La Juive
Mourning the Duc d'Orléans: Donizetti's Dom Sébastien and the Political Meanings of Grand Opéra
III: Reading Ballet
Bodies at the Opéra: Art and the Hermaphrodite in the Dance Criticism of Théophile Gautier
Bibliography
Index
