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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.924 EAN: 9780486262000 Edition: Rev Enl ISBN: 0486262006 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 631 Publication Date: January 01, 1990 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Definitive full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Full treatment of great operas and ballets as well as Rameau’s life and musical times, acoustic and harmonic theories, link to Lully, influence on Gluck, other topics. Numerous useful appendixes, indexes and an extensive bibliography. Over 300 musical examples. Average Rating:
Rating:  - Must haveA must have in having a complete library containing the musical biographies of the Greats -- and certainly for any Rameau fanatic. Rating:  - A big way to not quite address some important thingsOK, this is unquestionably a major book on Rameau, if not THE major work. So let's get that out of the way. Masterful, scholarly, detailed and analytical, it's a must. But. Rameau gave us more than most people know. First of all, he codified harmony for centuries to come. The fact that 20th century "serious music" went fishing off the coast of Schoenberg's neuroses will hopefully be forgiven in centuries to come. And to anyone who wants to tackle THAT issue by quoting from the microcephalics who accused Rameau of writing incomprehensible noise, I will only say that THAT was a polemic in hyperbole that dealt with Opera style, and that it worked itself out within a few years. Some ... Read More Rating: - Detail RichWhen a book is this well researched, this detail rich, and still has large portions of a person's life left cloudy, you know that the historical records are lost. My only disappointment with this book is that I wanted more of a personal story; but apparently it is not to be found. This is readable history with an extreme eye for detail, and any musical scholor will be delighted with the depth of the musical analysis. (A bit too much for me... if I am to have to music theory, I want to see the whole piece... but that would have made this a multi-volume set.) The majority of this book is analysis of the works of Rameau, with a focus on the operas, compared and contrasted ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display |
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Dover Publications Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work