When music gets old : revivals and revisions of eighteenth-century opéra comique in nineteenth-century France
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Re-orchestrating, reprinting, rebuilding, and rewriting artifacts of eighteenth-century opéra comique in the nineteenth century drew attention to time's passage. This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century cases of re-hearing, reevaluating, and revising the music and history of pre-revolution opéra comique, widely considered during the nineteenth century to be France's national genre. The phenomenon of revision offers insights into how people perceive the temporality of certain timbres, works, and entire genres. Inside an arranger's or re-orchestrator's decision to rewrite a sound lies a judgment that the sound had, over time, become undesirable. The music "had become old, " as many French artists and listeners said of eighteenth-century opera during the nineteenth century. Artists' revisions of eighteenth-century opéras comiques, both the scores themselves and their contexts, asserted new narratives of France's national music history. My archival research sheds light on the 1840 reconstruction of the Opéra-Comique's eighteenth-century theater as well as re-orchestrations of eighteenth-century opéras comiques whose extant manuscripts are analyzed for the first time.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Christensen, Kelly Lynn |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hadlock, Heather |
| Thesis advisor | Hadlock, Heather |
| Thesis advisor | Grey, Thomas S |
| Thesis advisor | Kronengold, Charles (Charles Stewart) |
| Degree committee member | Grey, Thomas S |
| Degree committee member | Kronengold, Charles (Charles Stewart) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kelly Christensen. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ky678tt6235 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Kelly Lynn Christensen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...