During the carnival season of 1700, as some of the entertainments at the court of
Louis XIV, there were presented seven mascarades at Marly, a châiteau near Versailles.
The mascarade was a small-scale musical production that combined music and dance and
was influenced by the ballet de cour and later the tragidie-lyrique. They were composed
by André, Anne, and Pierre Philidor who were members of a family dynasty of wind
players connected to the French court for several generations. Sources including the
music, libretti, descriptive journal and diary entries, costume drawings, and related
research allow reconstruction of the mascarades. These sources, especially the survival
of the music in this collection, are important in that they display the type of
musical/theatrical entertainment occurring at the court of Louis XIV. The thesis includes
a modern edition of the music.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/20472 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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