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Narrative interludes : musical tableaux in eighteenth-century French texts /

French authors in the eighteenth century traditionally used music to enhance literary love scenes. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considerably expanded contemporary notions of music?s expressive power, yet distinguished between the capacity of different nations and sexes to wield it. Rousseau?s controversial...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cuillé, Tili Boon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Series:University of Toronto romance series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tableau theory
  • Music and language : La querelle des bouffons
  • Diderot and musical mimesis
  • Cazotte and reader re-creation
  • Beaumarchais's staged songs
  • Music and morality : La querelle des femmes
  • Charrière's exercises in equivocation
  • Cottin, Krüdener, and musical mesmerism
  • Staël's sweet revenge.