The Nineteenth Century: France

David Charlton

The Nineteenth Century: France

Department of Music

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Abstract

This is a commissioned survey designed by Oxford for the general reader: it covers opera and opéra-comique created in France between 1789 and 1889. It makes much use of contemporary letters and documents to allow the reader into the contexts of production and the tastes of the age. By way of anchoring value-judgements, the essay also sporadically pursues an argument concerning the development of expressive techniques related to 'outward' depictions (e.g. local colour) that should ideally match up with music expressing the 'inner' demands of characters depicted.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera
Editors	Roger Parker
Place of Publication	Oxford etc.
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	122-68
Number of pages	46
ISBN (Print)	0198162820
Publication status	Published - 1994

Keywords

France, opera, nineteenth century

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