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Paperback Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647 1785 Book
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ISBN: 0521100976

ISBN13: 9780521100977

Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647 1785

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This is the first study to recognize the wider picture of opera within early-modern French culture. Downing Thomas considers the place of music within a cultural environment--the employment of music by Louis XIV as a symbol of absolutism; the use of music as a statement against the monarchy; and the long-term development of opera as a reflection of humanism. Thomas examines key works by Lully, Rameau, and Charpentier, among others, and extends his...

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