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Remarks and Reflections on French Recitative: Ban Inquiry into Performance Practice Based on the Observations of Bénigne de Bacilly, Jean-Léonor de Grimarest, and Jean-Baptiste Dubos (open access)

Remarks and Reflections on French Recitative: Ban Inquiry into Performance Practice Based on the Observations of Bénigne de Bacilly, Jean-Léonor de Grimarest, and Jean-Baptiste Dubos

This study concerns the declaimed performance of recitative in early French opera. Because the dramatic use of the voice was crucial to the opera genre, this investigation begins with a survey of historical definitions of declamation. Once the topic has been described, the thesis proceeds to thoroughly study three treatises dealing with sung recitation: Bacilly's Remarques curieuses, Grimarest's Traité de recitatif, and Dubos' Reflexions critiques. Principles from these sources are then applied to representative scenes from the literature. The paper closes with a commentary on the relationship between spoken and sung delivery and on the development of different declamatory styles.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Reid, Michael A. (Michael Alan)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1983 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1983

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 25, 1983
Creator: Brown, Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 302, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 8, 1984 (open access)

Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 94, No. 302, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 8, 1984

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 8, 1984
Creator: Standard, Jim
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History