Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Contents

• 1. Introduction Paul Henry Lang;
• 2. The first opera in Paris: a study in the politics of art Neal Zaslaw;
• 3. Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully: the stakes of a collaboration Catherine Massif;
• 4. Chronology and evolution of the grand motet at the court of Louis XFV evidence from the Livres du Rol' and the works of Perrin, the sous-maitres and Lully Lionel Sawkins;
• 5. The sources of Lully's grands motets John Hajdu Heyer;
• 6. Some notes on Lully's orchestra Jerome De La Gorce;
• 7. The Amsterdam editions of Lully's orchestral suites Herbert Schneider;
• 8. Parnassus revisited: the musical vantage point of Titon du Tiller Julie Ann Sadie;
• 9. The residences of Monsieur de Lully: a west side story Marcelle Benoit;
• 10. The geographical spread of Lully's operas during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: new evidence from the Burets Carl B. Schmidt;
• 11. How eighteenth-century Parisians heard Lully's operas: the case of Armide's fourth act Lois Rosow;
• 12. La Mariee: the history of a French court dance Rebecca Harris-Warrick;
• 13. A re-examination of Rameau's self-borrowings Graham Sadler;
• 14. A musician's view of the French baroque after the advent of Gluck: Gretry's Les trois rages de l'opera and its context M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet;
• 15. A bibliography of writings by James R. Anthony Dorman Smith.