Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony

by John Hajdu Heyer (Editor)

Overview

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521081962
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/18/2008
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Paul Henry Lang; 2. The first opera in Paris: a study in the politics of art Neal Zaslaw; 3. Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully: the stakes of a collaboration Catherine Massif; 4. Chronology and evolution of the grand motet at the court of Louis XFV evidence from the Livres du Rol' and the works of Perrin, the sous-maitres and Lully Lionel Sawkins; 5. The sources of Lully's grands motets John Hajdu Heyer; 6. Some notes on Lully's orchestra Jerome De La Gorce; 7. The Amsterdam editions of Lully's orchestral suites Herbert Schneider; 8. Parnassus revisited: the musical vantage point of Titon du Tiller Julie Ann Sadie; 9. The residences of Monsieur de Lully: a west side story Marcelle Benoit; 10. The geographical spread of Lully's operas during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: new evidence from the Burets Carl B. Schmidt; 11. How eighteenth-century Parisians heard Lully's operas: the case of Armide's fourth act Lois Rosow; 12. La Mariee: the history of a French court dance Rebecca Harris-Warrick; 13. A re-examination of Rameau's self-borrowings Graham Sadler; 14. A musician's view of the French baroque after the advent of Gluck: Gretry's Les trois rages de l'opera and its context M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet; 15. A bibliography of writings by James R. Anthony Dorman Smith.