Narrative interludes : musical tableaux in eighteenth-century French texts / Tili Boon Cuillé.

Author/creator Cuillé, Tili Boon
Format Book
Publication InfoToronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Descriptionxxiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUniversity of Toronto romance series
University of Toronto romance series. ^A136283
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.
Abstract In a study spanning the latter half of the eighteenth century, the author brings the cultural discourse on music and musicians to bear on the works of Diderot, Cazotte, Beaumarchais, Charriere, Cottin, Krudener, and Stael. She turns attention from the representation of music to its moral repercussions, from aesthetic innovation to social resistance, and from national to gender politics. Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, the author reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have previously fallen outside the scope of literary analysis but that revolutionized the form and function of music in the text.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0802038425 :
ISBN9780802038425

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML1727.3 .C966 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold