Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107306561
Content:
Cynthia Verba examines a previously unexplored part of the story of music's role in the French Enlightenment. By focusing on dramatic expression in the musical tragedies of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, this book reveals how he injected elements of rational design into his portrayal of emotions
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Translations and terminology -- 1 Introduction -- Music's duality in Enlightenment thought -- Between tradition and innovation -- Inherited gender stereotypes -- Rameau versus Rousseau on musical expression -- Issues of balance between music and text -- Lully as point of reference -- Procedural decisions -- 2 Rameau's concept of musical expression: In theory and in practice -- 3 Getting oriented: Rameau's first tragedy, Hippolyte et Aricie (premiere, 1733) -- The pangs of forbidden love -- Aricie's monologue aria, Act I, Scene 1 -- Recitative dialogue between Hippolyte and Aricie, Act II, Scene 2 (from the printed score of 1742) -- Intense conflict -- Recitative dialogue between Hippolyte and Phèdre, Act III, Scene 3 -- Structure and dramatic conflict on a grander scale -- Phèdre's monologue aria, Act III, Scene 1 -- Thésée's monologue scene, recitative and culminating air, Act III, Scene 9 -- Conflict resolution -- Thésée's monologue, Act V, Scene 1 -- Thésée's and Neptune's recitative dialogue, Act V, Scene 2 -- 4 Comparative overview of Rameau's tragedies, first versions: Continuity and change -- Hippolyte et Aricie (premiere, 1733) -- Castor et Pollux (premiere, 1737) -- Dardanus (premiere, 1739) -- Zoroastre (premiere, 1749) -- Les Boréades -- 5 Scenes of forbidden love confessed -- Castor et Pollux -- Télaïre's monologue aria, Act I, Scene 3 -- Castor's monologue aria, Act IV, Scene 1 -- Dardanus -- Recitative dialogue between Iphise and Dardanus, Act II, Scene 5 -- Iphise's monologue aria, Act I, Scene 1 -- Zoroastre -- Recitative dialogue between Amélite and Zoroastre, Act III, Scene 6 -- Amélite's monologue aria, Act V, Scene 1 -- Les Boréades -- Abaris's monologue aria, Act II, Scene 1 -- Recitative dialogue between Alphise and Abaris, Act II, Scene 5 -- 6 Scenes of intense conflict
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Castor et Pollux -- Recitative dialogue between Phébé, Télaïre, and Pollux, Act III, Scene 3 -- Dardanus -- Recitative dialogue between Iphise and Anténor, Act III, Scene 2 -- Zoroastre -- Abramane's monologue aria, Act IV, Scene 1 -- Recitative dialogue between Abramane and Zoroastre, Act V, Scene 4 -- Les Boréades -- Recitative dialogue: Alphise, Adamas, Abaris, Borilée, and Calisis, with respective followers in split chorus, Act III, Scene 4 -- 7 Scenes of conflict resolution -- Castor et Pollux -- Recitative dialogue between Castor and Pollux, Act IV, Scene 4 -- Dardanus -- Recitative dialogue between Dardanus, Anténor, Iphise, and Teucer, Act V, Scene 2 -- Zoroastre -- Zoroastre's accompanied recitative, Act V, Scene 5 -- Les Boréades -- Recitative dialogue between Abaris and his enemies, Act V, Scenes 4 and 5 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Verba, Cynthia Dramatic Expression in Rameau's Tragédie en Musique New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107021563
Language:
English
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