Music, the Market, and the Marvellous: Parisian Féerie, 1864-1900

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Tommaso Sabbatini (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol)

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous

Parisian Féerie, 1864-1900

Tommaso Sabbatini (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol)

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Oxford University Press
05 September 2024

Theory of music & musicology; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Opera

Series: British Academy Monographs

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, féerie was still thriving during the fin de siècle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly féerie and scientific féerie. The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten — but once hugely influential — repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.

By: Tommaso Sabbatini (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow University of Bristol)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9780197267738
ISBN 10: 0197267734
Series: British Academy Monographs
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures List of Tables List of Musical Examples 1: Overture: Féerie and Theatre with Music 2: Composerly Féerie and the Operettization of Féerie 3: Scientific Féerie and the Féerization of Parisian Theatre 4: The People of Féerie Appendix 1: Chronology and Sources Appendix 2: Personalia Index

Tommaso Sabbatini is a music historian specializing in nineteenth-century French theatre. He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol and McGill University. His research has been supported by the French Government, the American Musicological Society, and the British Academy. He has edited the Opéra-Comique production book from the French première of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (forthcoming).

Reviews for Music, the Market, and the Marvellous: Parisian Féerie, 1864-1900

Sabbatini's book offers a study of a Parisian stage genre that has not previously been the subject of an English-language nor a musicological study. One of the book's great strengths, therefore, is to establish for the first time the key figures, institutions, repertoire, and aesthetic parameters of the féerie industry between 1864 and 1900 in a comprehensive manner. He also weaves together a chronology of the genre's large-scale artistic developments and establishes a rich corpus of féerie repertoire that is likely new to most readers. What these elements add up to is a rich portrait of the genre over thirty-six years. * Sophie Horrocks David, Cambridge University Press *