Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa)

Broschiertes Buch

Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647 1785

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Downing A. Thomas is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Music and the Origins of Language: Theories from the French Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and co-editor of Empire and Occupation in France and the Francophone Worlds, a special issue of Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (1999). He has also published numerous articles.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100977
• ISBN-10: 0521100976
• Artikelnr.: 25616945