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Diderot's 'Le Neveu De Rameau' and the Dialogue Tradition
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Flute Performance Practice in the Tragédies en Musique of Jean-Philippe Rameau
… ornamentation in the context of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s tragédies en musique—Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), Castor et Pollux (1737), Dardanus (1739), Zoroastre (1749), and Les Boréades (1763). Rameau’s tragédies en musique prominently feature the orchestra, and the variety of instrumental …
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Playing Rameau on the piano : the Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin
… that of their French contemporary Jean-Philippe Rameau is rarely heard today. I believe that upon properly understanding the performance practices of Rameau’s day, as well as piano and harpsichord playing, some of his harpsichord works successfully can be adapted for the piano. My study discussed …
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Instrument of Change: The Baroque Guitar and the Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in England and France, 1626-1737
… in Paris – to 1737 – when Jean-Philippe Rameau’s third treatise on harmonic theory was likewise published in the same city. The three core principles of harmonic tonality under consideration are the basse fondamentale, the primacy of harmony and dependency of melody, and the corps sonore, …
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Out of Order
… with an expressive structure in the work of Rameau, a kind of distance from the present which represents a particular way of listening in time. I propose Rameau codified this structure as “tenderness”, locating the expression in his music and writings. I suggest tenderness relies on the trope …
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Listening with Two Ears: Conflicting Perceptions of Space in Tonal Music
… aspects of the harmonic theory of Jean-Philippe Rameau. Chapter Three considers the ways in which neo-Riemannian transformations, as ways of relating triads and seventh chords to one another, might be associated with changes of harmonic function in different Tonnetz spaces, and culminates in an …
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Eloquence and Music: the Querelle des Bouffons in Rhetorical Context
… include Rousseau, Diderot, Grimm, D'Alembert and Rameau, as well as lesser-known figures such as Castel, Caux de Cappeval, Cazotte and Jourdan—to engage in complex intellectual explorations that use the quarrel's innate divisiveness as a means of creating meaningful dialog. Through a system of …
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French Accompanied Keyboard Music (1738-1760): A Study of Texture and Style Mixture
… examples of this repertory by Mondonville and Rameau provided important prototypes for subsequent French accompanied sets. Mondonville's Op. 3 illustrates a strong leaning toward the Italian sonata tradition, while Rameau's <italic>Concerts</italic> show greater affinity to the French …
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From 'Le cri de la nature' to 'Pygmalion' : a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera
… more scopic music-theoredcabl ackdrop,o f which Rameau'sw ritings are takena s a paradigm. The first half of the thesis contends that the philosophy of music is fashioned upon a trinary model which mirrors the philosophy of nature and history. The first sector is an ideal, hypothetical state; the …
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The Lutheran hymn "Ein' Feste Burg" in Claude Debussy's Cello Sonata (1915): motivic variation and structure
… French classicism in music (from the styles of Rameau and Couperin) and by banning all German music. While Debussy admitted his desire to preserve French culture, he refused to adhere to their artistic demands which would have limited his art. This treatise will examine Debussy’s response to the …
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A master's saxophone recital and lecture recital
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… half of the century, to the appropriation of Rameau’s system of harmony as the summit of French genius and national character in mid-century. It also moves from the negotiation and dissemination of ideas of music through corporeal and material practices, to the uses of harmony as a model for …