Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque : essays in honor of James R. Anthony / edited by John Hajdu Heyer ; in collaboration with Catherine Massip, Carl B. Schmidt, Herbert Schneider.
| Other author/creator | Anthony, James R. |
| Other author/creator | Heyer, John Hajdu, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description | xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction / Paul Henry Lang -- The first opera in Paris: a study in the politics of art / Neal Zaslaw -- Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully: the stakes of a collaboration / Catherine Massip -- Chronology and evolution and the grand motet at the court of Louis XIV: evidence from the Livres du Roi and the works of Perrin, the sous-maîtres and Lully / Lionel Sawkins -- The sources of Lully's grands motets -- Some notes on Lully's orchestra / Jérôme de La Gorce -- The Amsterdam editions of Lully's orchestral suites / Herbert Schneider -- Parnassus revisited: the musical vantage point of Titon du Tillet / Julie Anne Sadie -- The residence of Monsieur de Lully: a west side story / Marcelle Benoit -- The geographical spread of Lully's operas during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: new evidence from the livrets / Carl B. Schmidt -- How eighteenth-century Parisians heard Lully's operas: the case of Armide's fourth act / Lois Rosow -- La Mariée: the history of a French court dance / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- A re-examination of Rameau's self-borrowings / Graham Sadler -- A musician's view of the French baroque after the advent of Gluck: Grétry's Les trois âges de l'opéra and its context / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet -- A bibliography of writings by James R. Anthony / Dorman Smith. |
| Abstract | This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honors the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centered on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 319-322) and index. |
| LCCN | 88002625 |
| ISBN | 0521352630 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.L95 J4 1989 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |