Dance and drama in French baroque opera / Rebecca Harris-Warrick.
Dance and drama in French baroque opera / Rebecca Harris-Warrick.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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G 2017/1899
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English
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Physical content
xx, 484 pages : illustrations, music : 26 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. This book exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters prevailing notions in operatic historiography that dance was parenthetical and present...
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Dance and drama in French baroque opera / Rebecca Harris-Warrick.
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Cambridge studies in opera
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-471) and index.
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G 2017/1899
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74VKVaJJxkVO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaJJxkVO
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ISBN
1107137896
9781107137899 hardback
DDC
782.1094409032
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991024101018002626
