Stratonice : comédie héroïque
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Stratonice : comédie héroïque
（French opera in the 17th & 18th centuries, v. 72b）
Pendragon Press, c1997
Printed Music（Full Score）
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Méhul, Etienne Nicolas, 1763-1817 -- Stratonice
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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"
