Thesis
Music and drama at the Académie royale de musique (Paris), 1774-1789
- Abstract:
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Cycles of regeneration and decline in musical drama at the Académie Royale (the Opéra) can be associated with the names of a series of major composers. The first was Lully; 1774 marks the beginning of the "époque de Gluck". Gluck had already attempted the 'reform' of Italian opera in Vienna, with as its chief manifesto the preface (dedication) to Alceste, published in 1769 and translated into French about 1773. It has long been recognized that this reform owed something to the me...
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Authors
- Publication date:
- 1969
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
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td:602326544
- Source identifiers:
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602326544 and 602357554
- Deposit date:
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2013-06-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Rushton, Julian
- Copyright date:
- 1969
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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