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The Conductus is a non-liturgical Latin song that dominated European culture in the Middle Ages. This comprehensive book uses cutting-edge research to show how poetry and music interact, exploring the role of the Conductus in medieval society, and providing new perspectives on this important body of music and poetry.

During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opera's repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing theatre organisations.

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. This book asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a...

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and genres, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, set designs, scenery and costumes. This book both tracks specific aspects of this culture and examines stage music in Paris through the lens of one of its most important figures: Giacomo Meyerbeer.

French nineteenth-century stage music studies have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging new productions of nineteenth century works to take their place in the modern repertory. However, this has focused on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opéra at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music. This book seeks to re-introduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris, and to acknowledge Paris as an import...

Charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

In Mozart's Ghosts, author Mark Everist investigates how the composer's past status can be understood as part of today's veneration.

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This Companion is a practical guide to monophonic and polyphonic music from the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century. Focusing on technical and cultural aspects of medieval music, its coherent perspective makes it ideal for all students and scholars of this key topic in music studies.

Perfect for students of this key topic, this Companion is a practical guide to the music of the Middle Ages.