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Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's origins and influences in the 1740s and goes on to use past and present research to create a new structural model that explains the elements of reform in Gluck's tragédies for Paris. Charlton's book opens many new perspectives on the musical practices and politics of the period, including the Querelle des Bouffons. It gives the first detailed account of intermezzi and opere buffe performed by Eustachio Bambini's troupe at the Paris Opéra from August 1752 to February 1754 and discusses Rameau's comedies Platée and Les Paladins and their origins.

Querelle des Bouffons --- Querelle des bouffons --- Querelle des Bouffons. --- Opera --- Bouffons, Querelle des --- Guerre des Bouffons --- Guerre des coins --- Gluck-Piccinni controversy --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- Music --- Theatrical science --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Opera. --- 1700-1799. --- Opéra --- Paris (France) --- 18th century

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Cynthia Verba's book explores the story of music's role in the French Enlightenment, focusing on dramatic expression in the musical tragedies of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. She reveals how his music achieves its highly moving effects through an interplay between rational design, especially tonal design, and the portrayal of feeling and how this results in a more nuanced portrayal of the heroine. Offering a new approach to understanding Rameau's role in the Enlightenment, Verba illuminates important aspects of the theory-practice relationship and shows how his music embraced Enlightenment values. At the heart of the study are three scene types that occur in all of Rameau's tragedies: confession of forbidden love, intense conflict and conflict resolution. In tracing changes in Rameau's treatment of these, Verba finds that while he maintained an allegiance to the traditional French operatic model, he constantly adapted it to accommodate his more enlightened views on musical expression.

Opera --- Enlightenment --- Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Rameau, Jean-Philippe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rameau, Jean-Philippe --- Opéra --- Siècle des Lumières --- Musique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Gluck-Piccinni controversy --- Querelle des Bouffons --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Ramo, Zhan Filipp, --- Rameau, --- Rameau, Johann Baptist, --- Rameau, J. Ph. --- Ramō, J. Ph., --- Ramō, Jan Firippu,