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Comédie-Ballet
Comédie-Ballet, form of entertainment in vogue at the Court of Louis XIV, mingling speech, usually in rhymed couplets and originally of little importance, songs, and dancing, in which the King and his courtiers usually joined. Although the genre was not invented by Molière, he gave it literary form, making the dialogue equal to or even more important than the music. His first comédie-ballet was Les Fâcheux (1661) but the finest example of it is Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1671). Among Molière's collaborators in the preparation of these Court spectacles were Philippe Quinault and, on one occasion, in Psyché (1671), the great Corneille himself. The music was by Lully, who eventually obtained a monopoly of music in Paris which effectively put an end to the development of such ‘plays with music’, and so hastened the overwhelming popularity of opera and operetta.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Comédie-Ballet." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Comédie-Ballet." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ComdieBallet.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Comédie-Ballet." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ComdieBallet.html |
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comédie-ballet
comédie-ballet. Fr. musico-dramatic entertainment devised by Molière and Lully in late 17th cent. Their first collab. was in Le mariage forcé (1664), their last Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670). Mus. and dance were regarded as complementary to the main plot; the sub-plots were carried on in the intermèdes.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "comédie-ballet." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "comédie-ballet." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-comdieballet.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "comédie-ballet." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-comdieballet.html |
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