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This book is among the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth century both as a historical and a literary phenomenon. It thus provides a new and badly needed perspective for scholars and other commentators who have often been willing to treat the journalistic responses to such musical genres chiefly as a simple source of factual information. The essays, taken from a conference in Oxford in 1996, explore the kinds of problem encountered and the types of methodology that might be employed in trying to interpret these critical responses; they throw light on such aspects as the cultural attitudes underlying the writers' rhetoric, the aesthetic stances and ideological agendas at play, and how modes of production influenced content.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Reading Critics Reading
• Subtitle: Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848
• Author: Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9780198166979
• ISBN: 0198166974
• ID: 04864733
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 552 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 163 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. June 2001

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