Narrative Interludes - Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts

Informationen zum Autor By Tili Boon Cuillé Klappentext Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuillé reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have revolutionized the form and function of music in the text. Zusammenfassung Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuillé reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have revolutionized the form and function of music in the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Tableau Theory PART ONE: MUSIC AND LANGUAGE: LA QUERELLE DES BOUFFONS Diderot and Musical Mimesis Cazotte and Reader Re-creation Beaumarchais’s Staged Songs PART TWO: MUSIC AND MORALITY: LA QUERELLE DES FEMMES Charrière’s Exercises in Equivocation Cottin, Krüdener, and Musical Mesmerism Staël’s Sweet Revenge Afterward Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Tili Boon Cuille
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2006
• EAN: 9780802038425
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3842-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies