Musical Diversions at the Court of Louis XIV

[摘要] During the carnival season of 1700, as some of the entertainments at the court ofLouis XIV, there were presented seven mascarades at Marly, a châiteau near Versailles.The mascarade was a small-scale musical production that combined music and dance andwas influenced by the ballet de cour and later the tragidie-lyrique. They were composedby André, Anne, and Pierre Philidor who were members of a family dynasty of windplayers connected to the French court for several generations. Sources including themusic, libretti, descriptive journal and diary entries, costume drawings, and relatedresearch allow reconstruction of the mascarades. These sources, especially the survivalof the music in this collection, are important in that they display the type ofmusical/theatrical entertainment occurring at the court of Louis XIV. The thesis includesa modern edition of the music.

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