Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 /

"This is the first study to recognize the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XlV as a vehicle for absolutism, the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time, and the long-...

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Main Author: Thomas, Downing A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in opera.
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