Music, the Market, and the Marvellous - Parisian Feerie, 1864-1900

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines feerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, feerie was still thriving during the fin de siecle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly feerie and scientific feerie. The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten ^-^but once hugely influential ^-^ repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• List of Musical Examples


• 1: Overture: Féerie and Theatre with Music


• 2: Composerly Féerie and the Operettization of Féerie


• 3: Scientific Féerie and the Féerization of Parisian Theatre


• 4: The People of Féerie


• Appendix 1: Chronology and Sources


• Appendix 2: Personalia


• Index

About the author

Tommaso Sabbatini is a music historian specializing in nineteenth-century French theatre. He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol and McGill University. His research has been supported by the French Government, the American Musicological Society, and the British Academy. He has edited the Opéra-Comique production book from the French première of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Tommaso Sabbatini, Tommaso (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Sabbatini, Tommaso (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow Sabbatini
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2024
• EAN: 9780197267738
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726773-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; France, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Paris (City), Theory of music & musicology, Romanticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology