An Annotated livret of Lully's Roland as a Source for Seventeenth-Century Declamation
2013; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0954586712000316
ISSN1474-0621
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoAbstract The Houghton Library at Harvard University holds a copy of the 1685 livret for Roland by Philippe Quinault and Jean-Baptiste Lully that has been marked up in three different seventeenth-century hands. The meanings of these markings cannot be conclusively deciphered until further corroborative sources come to light, but they seem to refer to declaimed performances of Quinault's text. The purpose of the current article is to propose possible interpretations of these annotations, guided by seventeenth-century theory of the oratorical pitches (tons) and eighteenth-century links between the Académie royale de musique and the Comédie française.
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