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?[The introductory essay] does provide an appropriate overview and
supplies a necessary framework within which the detailed entries
may be conveniently placed. The encyclopedia proper emphasizes
entries for works (operas, diverse lyric compositions, and
ballets), and biographical sketches (composers, librettists,
performers, directors, choreographers, and administrators).
Although much of the material is already available in standard
French sources, it is useful to have it here collected in accurate
and accessible English translation. Similarly, the many extended
synopses of unusual and obscure operas should prove exceedingly
welcome and valuable. A repertory list (1671-1715) is included as
an appendix; a bibliography lists standard references. Upper
division undergraduate and graduate collections.?-Choice
?Pitou's introduction is excellent. His emphasis ... is on the
Opera as an institution, an artistic enterprise tied from birth to
the French government and subject to constant political
interference as well as support. He does not ignore the music or
the problems of changing forms of music drama, but he does not
linger on minute distinctions of form. The result is an account of
the Opera that does not lose its subject in the mass of detail.
Pitou achieves his aim: to furnish an immediate orientation to the
entire subject over the past three centuries.' No one ... has done
it better.?-The Opera Quarterly
"�The introductory essay� does provide an appropriate overview and
supplies a necessary framework within which the detailed entries
may be conveniently placed. The encyclopedia proper emphasizes
entries for works (operas, diverse lyric compositions, and
ballets), and biographical sketches (composers, librettists,
performers, directors, choreographers, and administrators).
Although much of the material is already available in standard
French sources, it is useful to have it here collected in accurate
and accessible English translation. Similarly, the many extended
synopses of unusual and obscure operas should prove exceedingly
welcome and valuable. A repertory list (1671-1715) is included as
an appendix; a bibliography lists standard references. Upper
division undergraduate and graduate collections."-Choice
"Pitou's introduction is excellent. His emphasis ... is on the
Opera as an institution, an artistic enterprise tied from birth to
the French government and subject to constant political
interference as well as support. He does not ignore the music or
the problems of changing forms of music drama, but he does not
linger on minute distinctions of form. The result is an account of
the Opera that does not lose its subject in the mass of detail.
Pitou achieves his aim: to furnish an immediate orientation to the
entire subject over the past three centuries.' No one ... has done
it better."-The Opera Quarterly
"[The introductory essay] does provide an appropriate overview and
supplies a necessary framework within which the detailed entries
may be conveniently placed. The encyclopedia proper emphasizes
entries for works (operas, diverse lyric compositions, and
ballets), and biographical sketches (composers, librettists,
performers, directors, choreographers, and administrators).
Although much of the material is already available in standard
French sources, it is useful to have it here collected in accurate
and accessible English translation. Similarly, the many extended
synopses of unusual and obscure operas should prove exceedingly
welcome and valuable. A repertory list (1671-1715) is included as
an appendix; a bibliography lists standard references. Upper
division undergraduate and graduate collections."-Choice
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