From 'Le cri de la nature' to 'Pygmalion' : a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera

The thesis sets Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic of opera against the wider philosophical backcloth of eighteenth-centuryF rance and in contraposition to the more scopic music-theoredcabl ackdrop,o f which Rameau'sw ritings are takena s a paradigm. The first half of the thesis...

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Main Author: Baysted, Stephen John Xavier
Published: University of Plymouth 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274727