Conferences
1127.Jean-Baptsite Lully: Actes du Colloque = Kongressbericht, Saint Germain-en-
Laye, Heidelberg, 1987.Ed. Jérome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue
heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, 18. Laaber: Laaber, 1990. 618p.
ISBN 3-89007-211-9. ML410 .L84 L213.
A valuable collection of 35 papers on various aspects of Lully’s work and influ-
ence. These are entered separately in this guide: Neal Zaslaw on Lully’s orches-
tra (#345), James R. Anthony on Lully’s airs (#1139), and Herbert Schneider
on structure in Lully’s scenes and acts (#1138). Other essays of interest on the
operas: Patricia Howard, “The Positioning of Woman in Quinault’s World Pic-
ture”; Volker Kapp, “Benserade, librettist de Lully et panégyriste du roi”; and
Dietmar Fricke, “Molière et Lully: Une symbiose artistique sans suite?”Collections of Essays
1128.Lully, 1632–1687, tricentenaire.Special issue of Revue musicale 398–399
(1987). 64p. ML5 .R47.
Consists of three papers by Henri Prunières: “Les premières ballets de Lully,”
“L’Académie Royale de Musique et le dance,” and “La Fontaine et Lully.” The
third deals with the poet La Fontaine, who aspired to be Lully’s librettist but
was not accepted. Includes a useful discussion of libretto writing at the time,
along with court intrigues.
1129.Textes sur Lully et l’opéra français.Ed. and introduction by François Lesure.
Geneva: Minkoff, 1987. Various pagings. ISBN 2-82660-928-9. ML1727.3
.T35.
Reprints of: Charles Perrault, Critique de l’opéra(Paris: L. Billaine, 1674);
Saint- Evremond, Sur les opéras(Paris: C. Barbin, 1684); and Antoine Louis
Le Brun, Théâtre lyrique avec une préface(Paris: P. Ribou, 1712).
1130.Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque: Essays in Honor of
James R. Anthony.Ed. John Hajdu Heyer. New York: Cambridge U.P., 1989.
xiv, 328p. ISBN 0–521- 35263–0. ML410 .L95 J43.
A useful gathering of essays by various specialists. One paper is entered sepa-
rately: Neal Zaslaw on the first opera in Paris (#2260). Lois Rosow’s “How
Eighteenth-Century Parisians Heard Lully’s Operas: The Case of Armide” (see
note at #1141) and Carl B. Schmidt’s “The Geographical Spread of Lully’s
Operas during the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries” are also
of interest.Biographies
- Couvreur, Manuel. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Musique et dramaturgie en service du
prince.Brussels: Vokar, 1992. 454p. ISBN 2-8701-12005-2. ML410 .L95
C87.
A documented biography, with good accounts of the querelleand descriptions
of the ballets, masques, and other stage works. Valuable bibliography of some
400 items, name and title index.
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