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Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV
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Pages: 364
Authors: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance to the study of French Baroque dance. This facsimile
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Language: en
Pages: 441
Authors: Simon Trezise
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680
Language: en
Pages: 622
Authors: John S. Powell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and thea
Theatre Under Louis XIV
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: J. Prest
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-04 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts durin
Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Hedy Law
Categories: Enlightenment
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?