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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2012
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139034302

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Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's origins and influences in the 1740s and goes on to use past and present research to create a new structural model that explains the elements of reform in Gluck's tragédies for Paris. Charlton's book opens many new perspectives on the musical practices and politics of the period, including the Querelle des Bouffons. It gives the first detailed account of intermezzi and opere buffe performed by Eustachio Bambini's troupe at the Paris Opéra from August 1752 to February 1754 and discusses Rameau's comedies Platée and Les Paladins and their origins.

Reviews

'The result of over a decade's research into the operatic culture of Louis XV's reign and a lifetime of careful scholarship.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

'Opera in the Age of Rousseau shines not only in its insightful tour through familiar polemics but also in its awareness of generic and stylistic trends that figure all too infrequently in scholarship on French staged works from this period … [Charlton's] study highlights the vigour and realism with which Rousseau and his colleagues turned to opera; it also emphasizes the rewards awaiting any modern musicologist who confronts these repertories alongside their volatile reception histories.'

Gina Rivera Source: Eighteenth-Century Music

'[This book] comes as close as possible to describing what French ‘musical Enlightenment’ might be … [It] traces the subtleties of musical innovation, the shifts of public opinion, and the institutional, financial and aesthetic pressures that pushed opera in new directions.'

Downing A. Thomas Source: French Studies

'Charlton's book advances deeply into new territory … and reveals wholly new insights into French eighteenth-century opera, dealing with the numerous elements of its existence as well as its development … His book compels the greatest admiration.'

Herbert Schneider Source: Il Saggiatore musicale

'… a major contribution to our understanding of musical life in late eighteenth-century France … will certainly stand as the new reference work in the field.'

Martin Wåhlberg Source: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

'Opera in the Age of Rousseau, with its valuable descriptions, analyses, illustrations, and generous musical examples, will be an indispensable addition to any dix-huitièmiste’s library.'

Georgia J. Cowart Source: Journal of the American Musicological Society

'This is a panoramic presentation of the areas which matter for the evolution of the opera between 1750 and 1777, but a presentation which is made in splendid detail, one that greatly adds to our understanding of this art.'

Marian Hobson Source: translated from Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie

'Charlton appraises dramatic, linguistic and musical elements through close readings of scores and libretti … [He offers] major contributions to understanding music on the stage.'

Matthew Head Source: Cambridge Opera Journal

'Opera in the Age of Rousseau is a substantial and much-needed reexamination of a period of history that Richard Taruskin identified as 'until recently the most systematically neglected span of years in the whole history of European ‘fine-art’ music' … The book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and graduate students interested in Rousseau, Bambini’s bouffons troupe, and operatic practice during the Ancien Régime … a massive achievement.'

Jacek Blaszkiewicz Source: Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

'Charlton's fluid and energetic style will make light work of this read … Opera in the Age of Rousseau should occupy a prominent space on university and personal library shelves for many years.'

Erik Paffett Source: Music Research Forum

'The tables given in the work are in themselves an outstanding resource, based on wide and deep archival research, statistical study and reconstruction of repertory. Overall, this is a breakthrough study …'

Mark Darlow Source: 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Bibliographical abbreviations containing all works referred to in more than one chapter

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