Download or read book Jean Philippe Rameau written by Cuthbert Girdlestone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive biography and critical study of the great 18th-century composer features full-chapter treatments of Rameau's operas and ballets as well as his chamber music, cantatas and motets, and minor works.
Download or read book Operas of Jean Philippe Rameau written by Graham Sadler and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fontainebleau Operas for the Court of Louis XV of France by Jean Philippe Rameau 1683 1764 written by Paul Francis Rice and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, the French court made yearly trips to the chateau of Fontainebleau during the autumn months, partaking of the abundant hunting in the surrounding area, and enjoying evenings of operas and plays presented by the leading performers from Paris. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683- 1764), the leading French composer of the period, was asked to present 5 new operas at the chateau in 1753 and 1754. Only one of these works was ever published and three of the five were never heard in Paris. Consequently, these works have remained little known. This book presents Rameau's works first heard at Fontainebleau in the context of their compositional and performance histories, a context which is rich in court intrigues and social change. This study is the first published work to investigate these operas in detail, Rameau's relationship to the court and the public opera house of Paris is reevaluated, and the richness of Rameau's musical imagination is revealed in works from his maturity.
Download or read book The Operas of Rameau written by Graham Sadler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau’s operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature, archival studies, musical analysis, gender studies, ballet and choreography, dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership, including not only scholars but also practical musicians, stage directors, dancers and choreographers.
Download or read book Monstrous Opera written by Charles Dill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Operas by Jean Philippe Rameau written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Acante et Cephise, Anacreon (1754), Anacreon (1757), Castor et Pollux, Daphnis et Egle, Dardanus (opera), Hippolyte et Aricie, Io (opera), La guirlande, La naissance d'Osiris, La princesse de Navarre, Les Boreades, Les fetes d'Hebe, Les fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Les fetes de Polymnie, Les fetes de Ramire, Les Indes galantes, Les Paladins, Les sibarites, Les surprises de l'Amour, Le temple de la Gloire, List of operas by Rameau, Lost operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Nais, Nelee et Myrthis, Pigmalion (opera), Platee, The Enchanted Island (opera), Zais, Zephire, Zoroastre. Excerpt: See also: Les surprises de l'Amour is an opera-ballet in two entrees (three or four in later versions) and a prologue by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. It was first performed in Versailles on 27 November 1748. The opera is set to a libretto by Gentil-Bernard. According to the usage of the time, it was originally just billed as a "ballet" and was only later classified by scholars as an opera-ballet, although its content might more precisely ascribe it to the ballet heroique genre. The work was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and premiered at the third-season opening of her Theatre des Petits Appartements for the inauguration of the Theatre's new venue upon the Grand Escalier des Ambassadeurs (Ambassadors' Grand Staircase) in the Palace of Versailles, starring Madame De Pompadour herself in two of the original soprano roles, Urania and Venus. In its first form, the work was composed of an allegorical prologue relating to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, "Le retour d'Astree," and of two entrees, "La lyre enchantee" and "Adonis." Les surprises de l'amour was the first opera specially written for the Theatre des Petits Appartements and was also the...
Download or read book Complete works for solo keyboard written by Jean-Philippe Rameau and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of 63 works for keyboard by major French composer, harmonic innovator. Published between 1706 and 1741, they are reprinted in this volume from the authoritative edition edited by Camille Saint-Saëns. Included are such well-known pieces as: "Musette en Rondeau," "Tambourin," "Les Niais de Sologne," "Les Cyclopes" and "La Poule."
Download or read book Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin written by Jean Philippe Rameau and published by Alan R. Liss. This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jean Philippe Rameau written by Jérôme de La Gorce and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera ballet of Jean Philippe Rameau written by Kristin Annear Chenoweth and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RAMEAU written by Simon Trowbridge and published by Editions Albert Creed. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was both the greatest French composer and the most influential scientist of music of the 18th century. His personality was as complex and as singular as his music and his ideas. When he finally achieved fame as an opera composer he polarised Parisian society like no other artistic figure of his time. Simon Trowbridge's new book, the first general study of Rameau's life and work to be published in English in over half a century, is both an elegant introduction to Rameau and an exploration of his significance as a major figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Paris during the middle decades of the 18th century. Rameau emerges as a musician who was politically as well as artistically radical, an often paradoxical figure who worked within the official realms of the Opera and the court but who remained his own man."
Download or read book The Concept of Tonality in the Operas of Jean Philippe Rameau written by Emil Gustave Ahnell and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Opera written by Vincent Giroud and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant overview of the history of French opera, scrupulously researched and eminently readable. The people, the politics, the scandalsûinformative and entertaining."-Richard Bonynge AO, CBE --
Download or read book Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment written by Thomas Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Les Indes Galantes written by Jean-Philippe Rameau and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coquettes Wives and Widows written by Marcie Ray and published by Eastman Studies in Music. This book was released on 2020 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.
Download or read book Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart written by Ralph P. Locke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.
