This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of opera in eighteenth-century humanist culture. He ...
The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory as they appear within the logical and narrative ...
The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past - how they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and ...
The focus of the 'climate change debate' has begun to shift from 'what if?' to 'what should we do?'. The scale of losses from weather related disasters in the past decade has been unprecedented. The European windstorms of 1987 and 1990; Hurricane Andrew in 1992; the US Midwest flood in 1993 and heavy flooding in China in 1996 have caused ...
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