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Devienne IS BACK! A Rediscovery
David M. GreeneWas Devienne significant? The Larousse La Musique des origins a nos jours (a present from Cathy 30 years ago!) notes him, in the operatic context, merely as "melodiste agreable." Baker's,...
Devienne IS BACK! A Rediscovery
David M. GreeneWas Devienne significant? The Larousse La Musique des origins a nos jours (a present from Cathy 30 years ago!) notes him, in the operatic context, merely as "melodiste agreable." Baker's,...
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"Mister Franck! Time to do your symphony!"
David M. GreeneWhat makes a man suddenly feel that a symphony is coming on? Since we think largely in metaphors and analogies, I seem simply to sense something like an alarm-clock sounding...
"Mister Franck! Time to do your symphony!"
David M. GreeneWhat makes a man suddenly feel that a symphony is coming on? Since we think largely in metaphors and analogies, I seem simply to sense something like an alarm-clock sounding...
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Rameau: A College Dropout
David M. GreeneWhen Lully took over as France's official musical dictator, French opera, as he devised it, was at least as much dance as song. A generation later, a bastard form called...
Rameau: A College Dropout
David M. GreeneWhen Lully took over as France's official musical dictator, French opera, as he devised it, was at least as much dance as song. A generation later, a bastard form called...
