READING CRITICS READING by Roger Parker (Editor), Mary Ann Smart (Editor) ( 9780198166979 )

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Title:

READING CRITICS READING
OPERA AND BALLET CRITICISM IN FRANCE FROM THE REVOLUTION TO 1848

By:

Roger Parker (Editor), Mary Ann Smart (Editor)

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Hardback

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0198166974

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 June, 2001

Pages:

282

Description:

This examines in new ways opera and ballet criticism in early nineteenth-century France, taking seriously the motivations and beliefs of journalist critics. Rather than seeing their work as useful primarily for its raw factual information, the essays collected here look carefully at the historical, cultural, and aesthetic background that led critics to write as they did.

Synopsis:

This book is among the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth century both as a historical and a literary phenomenon. It thus provides a new and badly needed perspective for scholars and other commentators who have often been willing to treat the journalistic responses to such musical genres chiefly as a simple source of factual information. The essays, taken from a conference in Oxford in 1996, explore the kinds of problem encountered and the types of methodology that might be employed in trying to interpret these critical responses; they throw light on such aspects as the cultural attitudes underlying the writers' rhetoric, the aesthetic stances and ideological agendas at play, and how modes of production influenced content.

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11 music examples

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Oxford University Press

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