- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (14 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691044430
- ISBN-13: 978-0691044439
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,056,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music, Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than a musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous - using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placat
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My wife bought me this book for Christmas, and I have to say I'm battling to understand what the author means half the time. Thankfully, Rameau's operas are far easier to appreciate. So, too, is Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. However, I would still recommend the book to lovers of Rameau as there is definitely much to learn here.
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