Jean-Philippe Rameau : his life and work /
Definitive full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Full treatment of great operas and ballets as well as Rameau's life and musical times, acoustic and harmonic theories, link to Lully, influence on Gluck, other topics. Numerous useful appendixes, indexes and an e...
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London :
Cassell,
[1957]
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Table of Contents:
- Life: the first fifty years
- Chamber music
- Cantatas and motets
- Lulli's Tragédie lyrique
- Hippolyte et Aricie and Rameau's Tragédie Lyrique
- Castor et pollux
- Dardanus
- The later Tragédies lyriques
- Les indes Galantes and Rameau's Opéra-ballet
- Les fêtes d'Hébé and Rameau's pastoral music
- Platée and comédie lyrique
- Minor works
- Life: the last thirty years
- Theories
- Rameau and Gluck
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix A. Abodes and churches
- Appendix B. Titles
- Appendix C. Extract from L. Dimier's Racine perdu et retrouvé
- Appendix D. Prelude by Louis Marchand
- Appendix E. Excerpts from Hippolyte et Aricie, Dardanus and Les Boréades
- Indexes.