- Rice, Paul F. “Mid-Eighteenth Century Changes in French Opera: The Two
Versions of Rameau’s Zoroastre.” Recherches sur la musique française clas-
sique21 (1983): 128–144.
A study based on the author’s dissertation, U. of Victoria, 1981. Rice com-
pares the 1749 and 1756 versions, finding that the latter has more ariettesand
more segmentation of the text, leading to the future French opera style.
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
L’heure espagnoleand L’enfant et les sortilègesare in ASO127 (1990).
François Rebel (1701–1775)
Pirame et Thisbéand Scanderberg,both written with François Francoeur, are in FO,
v.36.
Jean Féry Rebel (1666–1747)
Ulysseis in FO,v.22.
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814)
Inoand Die Geisterinselare in GO,v.4.
Luigi Ricci (1805–1859)
Chiara di Rosembergh is in IO–1810,v.42, and Un’avventura di Scaramucciais in
IO-1810,v.44.
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
- Seaman, Gerald R. Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Guide to
Research.Garland Composer Resource Manuals, 17. New York: Garland, - xxxi, 377p. ISBN 0-8240-8466-7. ML134 .R57 S4.
An indispensable handbook, especially so for those not comfortable with
Russian. Seaman’s 1,305 annotated entries are mostly of Russian writings.
Includes a worklist, with titles in Russian and English, and full information on
performances, editions, and locations of sources. Indexes of authors, titles,
and topics.
In the present guide, entries are limited to those in Western languages.
Biographies
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai.My Musical Life. Trans. Judah A. Joffe. New
York: Knopf, 1924. xxiv, 389p. ML410 .R45 A3.
The complex history of publication and translation of this diary is set forth in
Seaman (#1558), item 180. It is an important document for the study of Russ-
ian music as well as a fine resource on the genesis and circumstances of the
composer’s own works.
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