French Musical Thought, 1600-1800 - Cowart, Georgia; Buelow, George J. 1929-2009 (Ann Arbor, MI UMI Research Press, 1989)
Introduction / Georgia Cowart -- "Baroque" as a Music-Critical Term / Claude V. Palisca -- The Meanings and Uses of Caractère in Eighteenth-Century France / Jane R. Stevens -- "Dealing in Shepherds": The Pastoral Ploy in Nascent French Opera / Louis E. Auld -- Transport, Ecstacy, and Enthusiasm / Gloria Flaherty -- The Conciliatory Partisan of Musical Liberty: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 1717-1783 / Robert M. Isherwood -- Rameau, Equal Temperament, and the Academy of Lyon: A Controversy Revisited / Albert Cohen -- The Iconography of a Salon Concert: A Reappraisal / Barbara Russano Hanning -- Persuading the Affections: Rhetorical Theory and Mersenne's Advice to Harmonic Orators / David Allen Duncan -- Ancients and Moderns, Tragedy and Opera: The Quarrel over Alceste / Buford Norman -- Music, Beauty, and the Paradox of Rationalism / Charles Dill -- Inventing the Arts: Changing Critical Language in the Ancien Régime / Georgia Cowart
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Keywords: Mersenne, Marin -- 1588-1648; d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond -- 1717-1783; Rameau, Jean-Philippe -- 1683-1764; 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Musical style; Baroque; Music philosophy and esthetics; Music theory; Music history; Pastoral; Opera; Temperament; Salon; Iconography; Rhetoric; Transposition; Quarrel; France