Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647–1785
Downing A. (University of Iowa) Thomas
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of opera in eighteenth-century humanist culture, examining key works by Lully, Rameau and Charpentier, among others.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521801881
- ISBN-10
- 0521801885
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-02-27
- Pages
- 420
- Dimensions
- 158x238x31
- Weight
- 714