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Music, the Market, and the Marvellous: Parisian Féerie, 1864-1900

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous: Parisian Féerie, 1864-1900

Sabbatini, Tommaso

Hardcover

Series: British Academy Monographs

Classical MusicOperaMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0197267734
ISBN13: 9780197267738
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 16 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.64
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, féerie was still thriving during the fin de siècle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly féerie and scientific féerie. The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten -- but once hugely influential -- repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.

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