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Title

The eighteenth century French cantata / David Tunley.

Author

Tunley, David.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.

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Description

xv, 278 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm

Summary

• This book, first published in 1974, has become the classic study of one of the most popular musical forms in early eighteenth-century France. It not only documents and examines a considerable repertoire for the first time, but it also places the genre in the wider context of both French and Italian baroque musical styles.
• In uniting the two national styles the cantata was one of the major influences in transforming the seventeenth-century French classical tradition in music into a style that owed much to the Italian baroque, yet retained a distinctive Gallic expression. As well as its musical interest, the French cantata provides an arresting example of the influence of society upon music, and the book commences with a chapter that views the emergence of the form in its social setting.
• Cantata texts enjoyed a vogue as poetry and this literary aspect is also dealt with in a separate chapter. This new edition incorporates research by the author and other scholars that has appeared during the twenty years since the first edition, reflecting today's growing interest in French baroque music. It also features a new chapter dealing with the French cantata in performance.

Subject

Cantatas > France > 18th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-274) and index.

Contents

1. The Stimulus -- 2. Un Embarquement pour Cythere -- 3. Stylistic Traits in French and Italian Vocal Music of the Baroque Era -- 4. The Early Cantata Composers (i): Jean-Baptiste Morin and the Emergence of the Eighteenth-Century French Cantata -- 5. The Early Cantata Composers (ii): Bernier and Battistin -- 6. The Early Cantata Composers (iii): Campra, Bourgeois, La Guerre, and Others -- 7. Louis-Nicolas Clerambault -- 8. The Zenith of the Cantata's Popularity -- 9. The Decline of the Cantata and Cultivation of the Cantatille -- 10. Conclusion -- 11. The French Cantata in Performance -- A (i) The Repertoire of the French Cantata -- (ii) Facsimile and Performing Editions -- B Works Performed at Philidor's Concert francais at the Tuileries from 1727 to 1733 -- C (i) An Index to the Cantata Texts by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -- (ii) List of Cantata Texts Published in the Mercure de France from 1711 to 1771.

ISBN

0198164394

LCCN

96043572

OCLC

• 35559214
• ocm35559214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries