| Series |
Studies in music (UMI Research Press) ; no. 105
Studies in music (UMI Research Press) ; no. 105. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
"Baroque" as a music-critical term / Claude V. Palisca -- The meanings and uses of Caractere in eighteenth-century France / Jane R. Stevens -- "Dealing in shepherds": the pastoral ploy in Nascent French opera / Louis E. Auld -- Transport, ecstasy, and enthusiasm / Gloria Flaherty -- The conciliatory partisan of musical liberty: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 1717-1783 / Robert M. Isherwood -- Rameau, equal temperament, and the Academy of Lyon: a controversy revisited / Albert Cohen -- The iconography of a salon concert: a reappraisal / Barbara Russano Hanning -- Persuading the affections: rhetorical theory and Mersenne's advice to harmonic orators / David Allen Duncan -- Ancients and moderns, tragedy and opera: the quarrel over Alceste / Buford Norman -- Music, beauty, and the paradox of rationalism / Charles Dill -- Inventing the arts: changing critical language in the Ancien Regime / Georgia Cowart. |
| Abstract |
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France were witness to dramatic changes in all aspects of social and cultural life. During this era, a new and modern spirit of critical inquiry arose, a change in ethos that had a major effect on all the arts. This book is a diverse collection of essays offering new perspectives and insight on musical opinion during one of the most fascinating periods in French history. The essays in this volume, the authors of which include musicologists, historians and literary scholars, illuminate clearly the relationship of critical thought in music to contemporary developments in philosophy, art, literature and politics. In the final analysis, scholars contend that music aesthetics, criticism and theory can be understood only against the backdrop of a dynamic cultural milieu. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index. |
| LCCN | 88038521 |
| ISBN | 0835718824 (alk. paper) |
