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Traveling Tunes : = French Comic Opera and Theater in London, 1714-1745.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Traveling Tunes :/
Reminder of title:	French Comic Opera and Theater in London, 1714-1745.
Author:	Levenson, Erica Pauline.
Description:	1 online resource (271 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355281262

Traveling Tunes : = French Comic Opera and Theater in London, 1714-1745.
Levenson, Erica Pauline.

Traveling Tunes :French Comic Opera and Theater in London, 1714-1745. - 1 online resource (271 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Driven from their native theaters in 1718 by heightened censorship, French actors, musicians, and dancers quickly became showstoppers in a London already crowded with international theatrical attractions. These performers brought a unique type of entertainment to England---one steeped in social commentary and subversive humor, communicated in part by the intertextual connotations of French tunes, known as vaudevilles. The French performers commanded the stage for an entire evening's entertainment and performed several times weekly; between 1718 and 1735, they produced over 175 musical comedies from the repertoire of the Theâtres de la foire, the Theâtre Italien, and the Comedie-Francaise.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355281262Subjects--Topical Terms:

649088
Music.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Traveling Tunes : = French Comic Opera and Theater in London, 1714-1745.
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520 $a This dissertation unearths the flourishing circulation of French popular theater in London during the first half of the eighteenth century. Long overshadowed by later Enlightenment internationalism and musical cosmopolitanism, these performances reveal the transnational circuits traveled by French performers and music. To investigate the pathways by which French and English theatrical worlds collided, I compare London publications of French plays to their original versions; trace French tunes disseminated in a diverse range of English sources, including grammar books and music notebooks; and examine English ballad opera adaptations of French sources.
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