Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

Downing A. Thomas

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Introduction Part I. French Opera in the Shadow of Tragedy: 1. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera 2. The opera king 3. The ascendance of music and the disintegration of the hero in Armide 4. The disruption of poetics I: Medee's excessive voice 5. The disruption of poetics II: Hippolyte et Aricie and the reinvention of tragedy Part II: Opera and Enlightenment: From Private Sensation to Public Feeling: 6. Heart strings 7. Music, sympathy, and identification at the Opera-Comique 8. Architectural visions of lyric theater and spectatorship 9. Opera and common sense: Lacepede's Poetique de la musique Conclusions Works Cited Index.

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