Stratonice : comédie héroïque

Author(s)

• Méhul, Étienne Nicolas
• Hoffmann, François Benoît

Bibliographic Information

Stratonice : comédie héroïque

Etienne-Nicolas Méhul ; introduction by M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet

（French opera in the 17th & 18th centuries, v. 72b）

Pendragon Press, c1997

Printed Music（Full Score）

Uniform Title

Méhul, Etienne Nicolas, 1763-1817 -- Stratonice

Note

French words, also printed as text

Introduction in English

Libretto by François-Benoît Hoffmann

Reprint. Originally published: Paris : Cousineau, 1792

Includes reprint of the libretto. Originally published: Nancy : Guivard, 1792

Includes reproduction of the autograph revision of Oui, c'en est fait, oui, je succombe (Bibliothèque nationale Ms. 2317) to be used in conjunction with the score

Includes bibliographical references (p. xli-xliii)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Etienne-Nicolas Mehul's greatest contributions to music were his operas, in which dramatic truth was the paramount goal. The tremendous variety among his operas and his frequently daring and innovative approaches result from consistently putting the requirements of the drama first. Stratonice shows the consolidation and development of new and more extended forms, a greater role for the orchestra, and a broader range of effects, achieved through a larger harmonic vocabulary, remote modulations, and deliberately unmelodic writing for the voice when justified by the exigencies of the text. Mehul's works for the Opera-Comique of the 1790s were the mainstay of the Paris repertoire and were often performed elsewhere. As a group they show better than the oeuvre of any other single composer the stylistic break with the works of the previous generation, the developments contributing to their far greater dramaticimpact, and the musical innovations which proved to be influential precedents for Romantic music.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction The composer: Etienne-Nicolas Mehul The librettist: Francois-Benoit Hoffman Stratonice, comedie heroique Sources Characters and plot Selected bibliography Abbreviations THE LIBRETTO in facsimile THE SCORE in facsimile Appendix A note about the editor

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA32121869
• ISBN:
  • 0918728959
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: fre
• Text Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Stuyvesant, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 1 score (lx, 143 p.)
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : M1500
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Operas -- Scores
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA05026027