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Contents
- Introduction
- Part I . French Opera in the Shadow of Tragedy:
- 1. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera
- 2. The opera king
- 3. The ascendance of music and the disintegration of the hero in Armide
- 4. The disruption of poetics I: Medee's excessive voice
- 5. The disruption of poetics II: Hippolyte et Aricie and the reinvention of tragedy
- Part II : Opera and Enlightenment: From Private Sensation to Public Feeling:
- 6. Heart strings
- 7. Music, sympathy, and identification at the Opera-Comique
- 8. Architectural visions of lyric theater and spectatorship
- 9. Opera and common sense: Lacepede's Poetique de la musique
- Conclusions
- Works Cited
- Index.