@book{805b2286056642a981dc59f0fc59b11d,
title = "French Opera 1730-1830: Meaning and Media",
abstract = "Three of the fourteen chapters consist of newly written material expanded from much shorter essays: 'Continuing Polarities: Opera Theory and op{\'e}ra-comique'; '{"}Envoicing{"} the Orchestra: Enlightenment Metaphors in Theory and Practice'; and 'Storms, Sacrifices: the {"}Melodrama Model{"} in Opera. Earlier essays are reprinted without alteration, and entitled as follows: 'The {"}romance{"} and Its Cognates: Narrative, Irony and {"}vraisemblance{"} in Early op{\'e}ra-comique' (1997); 'Orchestra and Chorus at the Com{\'e}die-Italienne (Op{\'e}ra-Comique), 1755-1799' (1985); 'The Overture to Philidor's {"}Le B{\^u}cheron{"} (1763) (1996); '{"}Minuet-scenes{"} in Early op{\'e}ra-comique' (1999); 'Motive and Motif: M{\'e}hul before 1791' (1976); 'Motif and Recollection in Four Operas of Dalayrac' (1978); 'The French Theatrical Origins of {"}Fidelio{"}' (1996); 'Ossian, Le Sueur and Opera' (1977); 'The Dramaturgy of {"}Grand Opera{"}: Some Origins' (1987); 'On the Naure of {"}Grand Opera{"}' (1988); 'A {"}ma{\^i}tre d'orchestra...conducts{"}: New and Old Evidence on French Practice' (1993). The volume concludes with some 'Addenda et Corrigenda'.",
keywords = "Music, French opera, theory, dramaturgy, theatre history",
author = "David Charlton",
note = "New music examples were created for the three new chapters. ",
year = "2000",
language = "English",
isbn = "0860787826",
series = "Variorum Collected Studies Series",
publisher = "Ashgate Publishing Ltd.",
number = "CS364",
address = "United Kingdom",
}