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Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution

  • Author: Charlton, David

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Contents

  • 1. Introduction;
  • 2. Music and spoken theatre;
  • 3. Music in Gherardi's company;
  • 4. Singing and acting at home;
  • 5. Opéra-comique en vaudevilles;
  • 6. Experiences of popular theatre;
  • 7. Comic and serious themes;
  • 8. Performance as history;
  • 9. Musical expansion;
  • 10. Italian inroads: the King's company;
  • 11. Six methods of synthesis;
  • 12. A 'Musico-dramatic art';
  • 13. Conclusions.