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An Eighteenth-century Musical Chronicle
The final volume of a three-volume work chronicling musical history from 1750 to the present. The music-related data includes listings of important world events, cultural activities, and distinguished contributions in both art and music. Worldwide musical events are presented year-by-year.
Philippe Quinault, Dramatist
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos, but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pit...
