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Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair and the prince de Vaudemont (Hardcover)
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Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair and the prince de Vaudemont (Hardcover)
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Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through
an investigation of exchanges and collaborations between musicians
and dancers from the two major national musical traditions in the
early years of the century. This study stems from discoveries in a
trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince
de Vaudemont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish
crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of
other sources - letters, diaries, treatises, libretti, scores -
offer a vivid new picture of musical life in Paris and Milan as
well as exchanges between France and Italy. The book is both a
patronage study and an examination of the contributions by - and
the difficulties facing - musicians and dancers who worked across
national and cultural boundaries. Music, Dance, and Franco-Italian
Cultural Exchange, c.1700 follows the careers of the prince and the
French violinist and composer Michel Pignolet de Monteclair. In the
context of a renewed fascination with Italian music in the 1690s,
Monteclair made a name for himself in Paris as a pedagogue and
composer who understood both national styles and blended them in a
way that was successful on French terms. Vaudemont hired Monteclair
to direct a French violin band and to compose dance music for a
series of new operas that observers declared "the best in Italy"
but are virtually unknown today. These productions involved
collaborations among a mixed company of French and Italian
musicians, dancers, composers, and librettists modeled on the
practice of Turinese court operas. The book is an account of the
contributions of these figures to the cultural life of Paris,
Milan, and other northern Italian states, and to the creative
mixing of musical styles, operatic conventions, and dance technique
in France and Italy through the 1720s and beyond. The connections
fostered by Vaudemont thus played a heretofore unrecognized early
role in the development of 18th-century cosmopolitanism, and they
attest to both the liveliness and the artistic importance of such
exchanges in the era before the well-known travels of Handel,
Telemann, and Vivaldi.
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