Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France

Hedy Law (Royalty Account)

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The Boydell Press
16 October 2020

Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)

How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression? This book explains the relationships between music, pantomime and freedom in pre-Revolutionary France. It argues that composers and performers recognized their agency when they attempted, from the 1730s through the end of the Old Regime, to revive a lost art called 'pantomime' for their compositions. In musical settings of pantomimes in French operas and instrumental works, leading composers of the time - Rameau, Rousseau, Gluck, and Salieri - used pantomime as a type of expressive dance and acting style that marked an aesthetic rupture between Louis XIV's absolutist governance and the Enlightenment ideals of free expression. In musical settings of pantomime, these composers cultivated various forms of freedom theorized in Enlightenment writings: artistic freedom for the composer; freedom as self-governance; interpretive freedom for spectators; freedom of action for performers; and freedom from dance convention.

Thus, pantomime was not only a dance genre; it also functioned as an expressive medium for top performers and invited spectators to draw their own interpretative conclusions. Placing the cultural phenomenon of pantomime in the intellectual context of the Enlightenment, the book explains how composers helped develop thinking and feeling subjects in pre-Revolutionary France.

By: Hedy Law (Royalty Account)
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781783275601
ISBN 10: 178327560X
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 16 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Bacchic Freedom Freedom from an Evil Spell Things that Move Things that Walk When Humans Dance like Atoms Epilogue Select Bibliography Index

HEDY LAW is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Reviews for Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France

[Hedy Law] analyses a broad range of concepts in detail through her well-chosen lens, presenting us with a bounty of discoveries. * THE MUSICOLOGY REVIEW * [A] necessary and detailed chronicle of how the moral, intellectual and cultural meanings invested in this art form set the stage for revolution. -- EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC

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Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France

Hedy Law (Royalty Account)

$172.99

Hardback

Reviews for Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France

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