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Nicolas-Etienne Framery - and lyric theatre in eighteenth-century France (Paperback)
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Nicolas-Etienne Framery - and lyric theatre in eighteenth-century France (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2003:11
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This study offers a reassessment of the librettist, parodist and
critic Nicolas-Etienne Framery (1745-1810) whom scholars have
frequently mentioned in passing, but whose career remains little
known and poorly understood today. Though Framery was also active
as a translator of Italian epic works and an occasional author of
narrative, this study considers his work as a dramatist and
theatrical critic, and demonstrates his constant concern for
progress in French lyric theatre. Framery was one of the generation
of librettists to write for the new Comedie-Italienne after 1762,
and his enthusiasm for the innovative opera-comique was unfailing.
His attention to musical terminology made him one of the major
contributors, alongside Momigny and Ginguene, to the Encyclopedie
methodique: musique. Unlike better-known theorists of music such as
Rousseau, Framery adopted a progressive stance towards musical
theatre and took an active part, in the 1770s, in the introduction
of Italian lyric forms into the French theatre world. Parodies of
Sacchini and Paisiello are considered here, as are Framery's
theoretical views on composition, on the relationship between music
and language, and on operatic word setting. His progressivism
extended to journalism (he was the editor of the first periodical
on music in France, the Journal de musique, and a columnist for the
Mercure de France) and to administrative issues (he acted as agent
for the Bureau established to protect authors' rights during the
Revolution). Framery's writings for the Journal, for the
Encyclopedie methodique, and for the Institut de France show him to
be a pioneering thinker on music who preferred the concept of
expression to classical theories of music as imitation. Framery's
approach led him to adopt a career at variance with tradition and
it is only now, in the light of recent research on the
opera-comique, that his innovations in the lyric theatre can be
properly appreciated.
General
Imprint: |
Voltaire Foundation
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2003:11 |
Release date: |
November 2003 |
First published: |
2003 |
Authors: |
Mark Darlow
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
417 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7294-0836-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
Opera
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LSN: |
0-7294-0836-1 |
Barcode: |
9780729408363 |
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