The French opera maintains characteristics that distinguish it from the other European stage manifestations. With eyes focused on the dramatic musical practice between the 17th and 18th centuries, this work has as main objective to discuss one of the strongest and traditional peculiarities of baroque opera: the haute-contre voice. We understand and circumscribe haute-contre as a type of vocal classification, quality of tenor voice, which has as its main characteristics the naturally light and high voice. This type of tenor was quite common in French sacred compositions from the sixteenth century and the opera between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, occupying a prominent place in the main male roles. For this discussion, a musical ...
[Musique vocale profane (France ; 1650-1750)]Titre uniforme : Clérambault, Nicolas (1676-1749). Comp...
International audienceThe baroque music is modelled on the language, so the claim of the composers o...
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated ...
French opera has a special place in the baroque canon. Although it has roots in the Italian traditio...
The intent of this study is twofold: first, to explore the dramatic and musical functions of chorus ...
A PERFORMANCE GUIDE OF LIGHT LYRIC COLORATURASOPRANO REPERTOIRE IN FOUR EARLY OPERASBY JEAN-PHILIPPE...
National audiencePsychoanalytical approach of a voice unprecedented: a history of castrati Born of t...
The recent revival of interest in French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is long o...
This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the...
Si l’opéra sur un livret en prose ne se manifeste publiquement en Europe qu’au tournant des XIXe et ...
This study explores performance practices used in French choral music of the late Baroque era, using...
Looking at opera, opéra-comique and salon music through the eyes of the first performers stresses th...
The opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), composed over a libretto by...
This is the second of a two-volume collection containing the basso continuo accompaniment to melodie...
International audienceWhile the reception of Italian opera in seventeenth-century France is now well...
[Musique vocale profane (France ; 1650-1750)]Titre uniforme : Clérambault, Nicolas (1676-1749). Comp...
International audienceThe baroque music is modelled on the language, so the claim of the composers o...
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated ...
French opera has a special place in the baroque canon. Although it has roots in the Italian traditio...
The intent of this study is twofold: first, to explore the dramatic and musical functions of chorus ...
A PERFORMANCE GUIDE OF LIGHT LYRIC COLORATURASOPRANO REPERTOIRE IN FOUR EARLY OPERASBY JEAN-PHILIPPE...
National audiencePsychoanalytical approach of a voice unprecedented: a history of castrati Born of t...
The recent revival of interest in French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is long o...
This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the...
Si l’opéra sur un livret en prose ne se manifeste publiquement en Europe qu’au tournant des XIXe et ...
This study explores performance practices used in French choral music of the late Baroque era, using...
Looking at opera, opéra-comique and salon music through the eyes of the first performers stresses th...
The opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), composed over a libretto by...
This is the second of a two-volume collection containing the basso continuo accompaniment to melodie...
International audienceWhile the reception of Italian opera in seventeenth-century France is now well...
[Musique vocale profane (France ; 1650-1750)]Titre uniforme : Clérambault, Nicolas (1676-1749). Comp...
International audienceThe baroque music is modelled on the language, so the claim of the composers o...
Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated ...