ISBN: 9780691044439 - Monstrous Opera – Rameau & the Tragic Tradition (princeton Legacy Library) (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Moderate wear to the jacket, a small sticker on the spine. Clean boards, firm binding. Former owner's name and a brief notation on the front endpaper. A few folded page corners and some lines in the margins. Not ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: The edges are stamped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A former library book from a small College with usual markings and additions; The is binding tight; the pages are clean. Very little wear. Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.…

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.8 inches. 240 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover with DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Interior appears free of markings. Light shelfwear. Dust jacket is very good and is protected in new Mylar Wraps. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An examination of one of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition. Some small indentations to the DJ visible when viewed at an oblique angle. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

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Hardback. Condition: nrFine. VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth, gilt. In excellent condition BUT small raised nodule of cloth originating from manufacture on front cover. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Size: 8vo 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condition: gut. Monstrous Opera / Rameau and the Tragic Tradition In englischer Sprache. pages.