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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Proloque: Three Rococo Jdylls | |
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| Watteau, Galant Cynosure | |
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| A New Art of Visual Enchantment | |
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| European Vogue | |
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| The Galant Style | |
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| Two Sirens: Farinelli and Metastasio | |
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| A New Art of Poetic Enchantment | |
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| The Peerless Singer | |
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| Castrati on Stage | |
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| Burney and the Grand Tour | |
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| Quantz Recalls the 1720s | |
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| Brosses in Italy, 1739-40 | |
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| Travelers in the 1760s and 1770s | |
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| Naples | |
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| Conservatories | |
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| Vinci | |
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| Commedia per musica | |
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| Dramma per musica | |
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| Didone abbandonata | |
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| Artaserse | |
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| The Vinci Legend | |
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| Pergolesi | |
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| La serva padrona | |
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| A New Regime | |
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| L'Olimpiade | |
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| Stabat mater | |
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| Teatro San Carlo | |
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| Leo | |
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| Jommelli | |
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| La Passione di Gesu Cristo | |
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| Piccinni | |
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| La Buona figliuola | |
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| Burney at the Opera | |
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| Galiani's Letters | |
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| Venice | |
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| Tributaries, Rivals, Polity | |
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| The Ospedali | |
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| Vivaldi | |
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| Priest, Violinist, and Musical Genius | |
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| Operas | |
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| Concertos | |
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| The Four Seasons | |
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| Veracini and Locatelli | |
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| Tartini | |
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| Sammartini of Milan and the Symphony | |
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| The Keyboard | |
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| Galuppi | |
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| Predecessors, Training, Early Successes | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Opera Seria | |
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| Goldonian Opera Buffa | |
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| "Brave Galuppi" | |
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| Dresden and Berlin | |
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| Saxony's Wettin Dynasty | |
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| Early Opera | |
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| Wedding Festivities | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Hasse | |
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| Early Years | |
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| Artaserse | |
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| Cleofide | |
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| The Royal Chapel under Heinichen and Zelenka | |
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| Hasse's Zenith | |
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| Dresden's Nadir | |
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| Burney Visits Dresden | |
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| Prince Frederick of Prussia | |
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| Carl Heinrich Graun | |
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| Montezuma | |
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| Quantz and the Royal Chamber Music | |
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| Other Musicians in Prussian Service | |
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| Burney in Berlin | |
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| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | |
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| Keyboard Sonatas | |
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| Concertos | |
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| Singspiel | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| Hiller's Die Jagd | |
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| The 1770s | |
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| Stuttquart and Mannheim | |
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| Carl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg | |
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| Jommelli's Operas | |
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| L'Olimpiade | |
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| Didone abbandonata | |
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| Fetonte | |
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| Postlude | |
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| Noverre's Ballets | |
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| Deller's Orfeo ed Euridice | |
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| The Building of Mannheim | |
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| Elector Carl Theodore | |
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| Stamitz: Life of a Virtuoso Violinist | |
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| The Symphony | |
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| Stamitz | |
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| Richter and Holzbauer | |
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| Anton Fils | |
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| Cannabich | |
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| Toeschi and Franzl | |
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| Palatine Court Opera | |
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| Traetta's Sofonisba | |
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| Majo's Ifigenia in Tauride | |
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| Johann Christian Bach | |
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| Theater in German: Melodrama | |
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| Holzbauer's Gunther von Schwarzburg | |
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| Paris | |
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| Institutions | |
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| Churches | |
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| L'Academie Royale de Musique | |
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| Other Theaters | |
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| The Concert Spirituel | |
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| Music Publishing | |
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| Rameau | |
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| Violinist-Composers | |
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| Leclair | |
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| Mondonville | |
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| Guignon and Guillemain | |
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| Others | |
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| Gossec and the Symphony | |
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| Gavinies and Leduc | |
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| Concerto and Concertante | |
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| Saint-Georges | |
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| The Keyboard | |
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| Accompanied and Solo Works | |
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| Schobert | |
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| Fortepiano versus Harpsichord | |
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| Opera-Comique | |
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| Vaudeville Comedy | |
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| Favart | |
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| La Querelle des Bouffons | |
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| Rousseau's Le devin du village | |
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| Dauvergne's Les troqueurs | |
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| Interlude | |
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| Duni | |
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| Le peintre amoureux de son modele | |
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| Subsequent Works | |
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| Philidor | |
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| Apprenticeship | |
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| L'art de la modulation | |
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| Sedaine | |
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| Blaise le savetier | |
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| Le marechal ferrant | |
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| Le sorcier and Tom Jones | |
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| Ernelinde | |
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| Monsigny | |
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| On ne s'avise jamais de tout | |
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| Le roi et le fermier | |
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| Le deserteur | |
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| Gretry | |
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| Liege, Rome, and Geneva | |
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| First Years in Paris | |
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| Le Huron and Lucile | |
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| Zemire et Azor and After | |
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| Richard Coeur-de-lion | |
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| Gluck at the Opera | |
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| Preparations | |
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| The Visit of 1774-75 | |
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| Iphigenie en Aulide | |
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| Orphee and Alceste | |
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| An Homage to Lully and Quinault: Armide | |
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| A Neapolitan Rival: Piccinni | |
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| Roland | |
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| Final Triumph: Iphigenie en Tauride | |
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| Successors | |
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| Three Apostles of the Galant Style | |
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| Christian Bach in London | |
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| Apprenticeship: Germany and Italy | |
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| The King's Theatre | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| Sacchini and Other Rivals | |
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| Paisiello in Saint Petersburg | |
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| Russia under the Tsarinas | |
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| Catherine's Favorite | |
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| Il barbiere di Siviglia | |
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| Boccherini in Madrid | |
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| Virtuoso Cellist | |
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| In the Service of Infante Luis | |
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| "The True Genius of the Instruments" | |
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| Epiloque | |
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| Boswell Visits Mannheim in 1764 | |
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| List of Works Cited | |
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| Index | |