Jean Baptiste Lully French Baroque: Essays in Honor of James R. Anthony - Softcover

Heyer, John Hadju

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521081963 ISBN 13: 9780521081962

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

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Book Description:

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521081963
• ISBN 13: 9780521081962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344