Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work (Dover Books on Music: Composers) - Softcover

Girdlestone, Cuthbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486492230 ISBN 13: 9780486492230

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2014

Synopsis

The definitive biography and critical study of the great 18th-century composer, this volume features full-chapter treatments of Rameau's operas and ballets as well as his chamber music, cantatas and motets, and minor works. Additional topics include acoustic and harmonic theories, links to Lully, and influence on Gluck. More than 300 musical examples, plus appendixes and indexes.

About this title

About the Author

British musicologist and literary scholar Cuthbert Girdlestone (1895-1975) was educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne and taught French at King's College in Newcastle from 1926 to 1960.American musicologist and historian Philip Gossett translated Rameau's Treatise on Harmony. He recently retired from his post as Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486492230
• ISBN 13: 9780486492230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640