Opera In The Age Of Rousseau

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521887607
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera in the Age of Rousseau written by David Charlton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book A Complete Dictionary of Music written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Wokler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191604429
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction written by Robert Wokler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's life and works Robert Wokler shows how his philosophy of history, his theories of music and politics, his fiction, educational and religious writings, and even his botany, were all inspired by visionary ideals of mankind's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom. He explains how, in regressing to classical republicanism, ancient mythology, direct communion with God, and solitude, Rousseau anticipated some post-modernist rejections of the Enlightenment as well. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reveries of the Solitary Walker written by Jean Jacques Rousseau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography written by a Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The content of this book is divided into ten "Walks" or chapters. The book's subject matter is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of the scenery, particularly plants, that Rousseau saw on his walks around Paris, and explanations and extensions of assertions previously made by Rousseau in fields such as education and political philosophy. The work is characterized by tranquility and resignation in large parts, but it also refers to Rousseau's recognition of the negative effects of persecution towards the end of his life.

Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book The Critic written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576470817
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Garrick to Gluck written by Daniel Heartz and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 18 essays on musical theatre in the eighteenth century, written between 1967 and 2001

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Lettres écrites de la montagne written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062037617
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Rousseau's Dog written by David Edmonds and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And so Rousseau came to England with his beloved dog, Sultan, and willingly took refuge with his more respected counterpart. But within months, the exile was loudly accusing his benefactor of plotting to dishonor him—which prompted a most uncharacteristically violent response from Hume. And so began a remarkable war of words and actions that ensnared many of the leading figures in British and French society, and became the talk of intellectual Europe. Rousseau's Dog is the fascinating true story of the bitter and very public quarrel that turned the Age of Enlightenment's two most influential thinkers into deadliest of foes—a most human tale of compassion, treachery, anger, and revenge; of celebrity and its price; of shameless spin; of destroyed reputations and shattered friendships.

Author : Jerome Schwartz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977764348
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Rousseau's Theatre for the Parisians written by Jerome Schwartz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book tells the remarkable story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his life in the theatre. Based primarily on his Letter to d'Alembert, a devastating critique of the French stage, he is often considered anti-theatrical. But far from an enemy of the stage, Rousseau was in fact a passionate lover of all forms of theatre. Unlike Diderot and other theatre reformers of his time, Rousseau's aims were far more radical. He not only argued, as did Diderot, against theatrical conventions but-as this book shows and few are aware-Rousseau created a new kind of theatre for the Parisians. Although his theatrical works appear on the surface to be conventional-a common rebuke by his critics-they are not. In all of Rousseau's theatre one finds-not flawed and peculiar divergences from the accepted forms-but works Rousseau deliberately created for the morally jaded Parisians. For example, his one-act opera THE VILLAGE SOOTHSAYER (Le Devin du village) was meant not only as court entertainment but as a model for French opera composed in the Italian style. Moreover, what is often missed is that, imbedded in the work, is the more subversive aim of reforming the world-weary audience witnessing the opera at Fontainebleau by inspiring in them, through its story and music, a yearning for the simple and virtuous life of the countryside. As this book argues, Rousseau's aim to reform the theatre was also part of his much wider program to reform society as a whole. To further his career Rousseau forced himself to attend the famous salons of Paris frequented by eminent men of letters and music, such as the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, the playwright Pierre de Marivaux, the philosopher Denis Diderot, and even Voltaire. Also in attendance were powerful men such as the Duke de Richelieu. Many were charmed, intrigued and eager to assist the ambitious young man from Geneva. These intellectual gatherings hosted by formidable salonnières offered their guests a lavish spread and complex rules of discourse meant to smooth ruffled feathers and sooth immense egos. If Rousseau felt alienated and tongue-tied in them, nevertheless, all of the above notables-some skeptical, some captivated-aided him in his quest for fame. Play by play and opera by opera, the Parisians absorbed, often without being fully aware of it, Rousseau's subtle theatrics. Covertly breaking the rules of bienséance, his theatrical works mostly employ the ruse of placing the author inside his story disguised as its troubled hero. In so doing, Rousseau revealed his private and imperfect soul. Beginning in 1743 with his opera The Amorous Muses (Les Muses galantes) and ending in 1762 with his Pygmalion, theatregoers with finely tuned ears heard sub-rosa the author's confessional voice-a voice that would be sacred to the Romantics.