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1 online resource (25 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; No. 1. L'OUVER TURE DE BELLEROPHON; No. 2. L'OUVERTURE D'ISIS; No. 3. TROMPETTE DE L'OPERA [Prelude from the Prologue to Isis]; No. 4. MENUET [Air from Isis, Act III, Scene xi]; No. 5. MENÜETT [2e Air pour les Muses, from the Prologue to Isis]; No. 6. L'OUVERTURE DE L'OPERA D'ALCESTE; No. 7. MARCHE DE L'OPERA [Rondeau from the Prologue to Alceste]; No. 8. PIECE DE L'OPERA [Duo from the Prologue to Atys]; No. 9. LA MARCHE [Entrée des Sacrificateurs, from Thesée, Act I, Scene xi]. |
| Summary |
Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so suited to French tastes and needs that it alone, among the attempts of various other nations at operatic forms of their own, was able to resist domination by Italian opera and to maintain its individual identity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The impress he made upon French music was enormous, and it affected every musical medium of his day. Evidence of his influence in a field as remote from his own as the literature f. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Chorale preludes.
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Chorale preludes. |
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Hymns -- Instrumental settings.
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Hymns -- Instrumental settings. |
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Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged.
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Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged. |
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Organ music, Arranged.
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Organ music, Arranged. |
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Electronic books.
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Excerpts.
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Excerpts.
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Arrangements (Music)
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Arrangements (Music)
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Instrumental settings.
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Instrumental settings.
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| Added Author |
Howell, A. C. (Almonte Charles), 1895-1986.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Howell, Almonte C. Jr. Nine Seventeenth-Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813155784 |
| ISBN |
9780813165165 (electronic book) |
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0813165164 (electronic book) |
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