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Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's origins and influences in the 1740s and goes on to use past and present research to create a new structural model that explains the elements of reform in Gluck's tragédies for Paris. Charlton's book opens many new perspectives on the musical practices and politics of the period, including the Querelle des Bouffons. It gives the first detailed account of intermezzi and opere buffe performed by Eustachio Bambini's troupe at the Paris Opéra from August 1752 to February 1754 and discusses Rameau's comedies Platée and Les Paladins and their origins.
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9780521887601 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2012, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular.
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9781107504349 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2015, cover price $32.99
Originally published in 1986, this book is a major study in English on Grétry and opéra-comique. Opéra-comique is the operatic genre that lies behind The Magic Flute and Fidelio. David Charlton's important study examines the genre in the period before the French Revolution, considering the literary sources, performance conditions, contemporary aesthetic criteria and statistics which reveal the popularity of such works at that time. Dr Charlton takes Grétry, composer of some thirty-four opéras-comiques, and a fascinating personality of his day, as the central figure of his study, drawing on Grétry's extensive Mémoires and other writing, not available in English translation, for the biographical sections. Twenty-four of Grétry's opéras-comiques are given a chapter each, with plot summary, critical discussion, summary of different versions and history of performance in Paris. The book can thus be used as a reference tool or read as a comprehensive survey of opéra-comique between 1768 and 1791.
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9780521251297 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1986, this book is a major study in English on Grétry and opéra-comique.
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9780521158817 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 21, 2011), cover price $54.99
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9780820499420 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 24, 2007), cover price $68.95
9783631553435 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 24, 2007), cover price $92.95
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9780521543392 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 16, 2004, cover price $59.99
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9780521641180 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $78.99
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9780521646833 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $39.99
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9781840146776 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, December 1, 2000, cover price $134.95
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9780860787822 | Variorum, March 1, 2000, cover price $180.00
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9780521235204 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $109.99
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9780895791740 | A-R Editions, June 1, 1985, cover price $40.00
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9780824038366 | Taylor & Francis, November 1, 1983, cover price $25.00
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9780824038120 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1982, cover price $25.00
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