The work of Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, regarded as the founder of French opera and a key figure in the development of court ballet, enjoys growing popular and scholarly interest. This volume brings together thirteen international scholars to present the best recent research on Lully's life, his work and his influence. Illustrated with musical examples and photographs, the volume also contains surprising archival discoveries about the composer's early life in Tuscany and important new information about his manuscript sources. It will interest musicologists, historians, performers and listeners alike.
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"...each essay presents original and fascinating insights...For those able to plumb its substantial depths, Lully Studies contains penetrating insights." The Opera Journal
"Gaps remain in knowledge about this founder of French opera, but this collection of11 articles on a variety of subjects presents the best current research....The bibliography is excellent." Choice
"...bespeaks [of] a healthy continuane of scholarly interest in the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century court composer." The Opera Quarterly
"While this book id for the specialist, if t encourages additional interest in Lully's music, it will have accomplished its purpose." American Recorder
"Gaps remain in knowledge about this founder of French opera, but this collection of11 articles on a variety of subjects presents the best current research....The bibliography is excellent." Choice
"...bespeaks [of] a healthy continuane of scholarly interest in the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century court composer." The Opera Quarterly
"While this book id for the specialist, if t encourages additional interest in Lully's music, it will have accomplished its purpose." American Recorder
Book Description
The work of Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, regarded as the founder of French opera and a key figure in the development of court ballet, enjoys growing popular and scholarly interest. This volume brings together thirteen international scholars to present the best recent research on Lully's life, his work and his influence. Illustrated with musical examples and photographs, the volume also contains surprising archival discoveries about the composer's early life in Tuscany and important new information about his manuscript sources. It will interest musicologists, historians, performers and listeners alike.
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When Henry Prunieres undertook his new edition of Lully's work, he discussed the composer's origins in the "notice historique" of the first volume devoted to the ballets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Palais Royal, Estienne Roger, Christophe Ballard, Marcel Proust, Giovanni Battista, Les Amants, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Romain Rolland, Antoine Pointel, George Dandin, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Reynaldo Hahn, Nicolas Selhof, Philip Heus, Pierre Mortier, Gilles Charpentier, Lorenzo Lulli, New York, Conseiller Secretaire du Roy, Henri Guichard, Paris Opera, Pierre Perrin, Premier Dessus, Grande Mademoiselle, Herbert Schneider New!
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When Henry Prunieres undertook his new edition of Lully's work, he discussed the composer's origins in the "notice historique" of the first volume devoted to the ballets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Palais Royal, Estienne Roger, Christophe Ballard, Marcel Proust, Giovanni Battista, Les Amants, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Romain Rolland, Antoine Pointel, George Dandin, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Reynaldo Hahn, Nicolas Selhof, Philip Heus, Pierre Mortier, Gilles Charpentier, Lorenzo Lulli, New York, Conseiller Secretaire du Roy, Henri Guichard, Paris Opera, Pierre Perrin, Premier Dessus, Grande Mademoiselle, Herbert Schneider New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- New Grove Dictionary by Sadie on page 80, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully by Jérôme de La Gorce in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Jean Santeuil by Marcel Proust on page 280, and page 283
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 67, and page 68
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera: 4 volumes by Stanley Sadie on page 80, and Back Matter
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- Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Downing A. Thomas on 4 pages
- From Renaissance To Baroque: Change In Instruments And Instrumental Music In The Seveteenth Century by Jonathan Wainwright on page 98, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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