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Musical debate and political culture in France, 1700-1830 / R.J. Arnold.
Author
Arnold, R. J. (Robert James), 1971-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML1727.33 .A76 2017
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Opera
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France
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18th century
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Opera
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France
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19th century
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Querelle des Bouffons
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Series
Music in society and culture
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Music in Society and Culture
Summary note
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French cultural life seethed with debates about the proper nature and form of musical expression, particularly in opera. Expressed in a flood of pamphlets, articles, letters and poems as well as in the actual disruption of performances, these so-called querelles were seen at the time as a distinctively French phenomenon and have been mined by scholars since for what they can tell us about French politics and culture in the revolutionary period. 0This is the first full-length treatment of the entire history of this phenomenon, from its beginnings in the last years of Louis XIV to the 1820s when the new musical challenges of Berlioz and Wagner put an end to this particular form of debate. Arnold analyses the individual querelles, showing how they reflected and played their part in wider political and cultural events. At the same time, he traces themes common in varying degrees to them all - questions of authority, the issue of national prestige, and the relation of language to music. Where some scholars have characterised these disputes as simply politics by proxy, Arnold paints a more nuanced picture, showing that music itself was taken seriously beyond artistic circles because it was seen as having great, potentially limitless, power over popular sentiment and thus implicitly power to reform society and change the world.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Parallels, comparisons and ripostes: the Raguenet-Lecerf controversy, 1702-32
Spectators, satirists and sectarians: the Ramiste-Lulliste Querelle, 1733-51
'A vast negotiation': the Querelle des bouffons, 1752-54
The spirit of contradiction: the Gluckiste-Piccinniste Querelle, 1774-88
A revolutionary interlude: 1789-1800
The end of the party: new avenues for musical dispute, 1800-30
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9781783272013
1783272015
LCCN
2017561141
OCLC
967833212
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