Armide: Drame héroique, mis en musique

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Armide was premiered at the Paris Opéra on September 23, 1777, recalling the earlier success of Lully’s opera of the same name, which premiered nearly a century earlier on February 15, 1686. After collaborating on several reform operas with Calzabigi, Gluck revived the older dramatic tradition of Quinault (Lully's librettist) by setting the older text in the modern musical style. The seventeenth-century five act model requires more continuous music, with few distinct arias, as well as divertissements and spectacular effects. Gluck also respects the tragic conclusion endemic to the model, avoiding the modern practice of the lieto fine ("happy ending") … continued below

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score (279 p.) 34 cm.

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Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787 1783.

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  • Main Title: Armide: Drame héroique, mis en musique
  • Uniform Title: Armide
  • Added Title: Gerusalemme liberata

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Armide was premiered at the Paris Opéra on September 23, 1777, recalling the earlier success of Lully’s opera of the same name, which premiered nearly a century earlier on February 15, 1686. After collaborating on several reform operas with Calzabigi, Gluck revived the older dramatic tradition of Quinault (Lully's librettist) by setting the older text in the modern musical style. The seventeenth-century five act model requires more continuous music, with few distinct arias, as well as divertissements and spectacular effects. Gluck also respects the tragic conclusion endemic to the model, avoiding the modern practice of the lieto fine ("happy ending") in which misfortunes are reversed at the last possible moment.

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score (279 p.) 34 cm.

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  • UNT Catalog No.: b1323805 | View in Discover
  • OCLC: 21342946
  • RISM No.: RISM A/I, G 2679
  • Other: W. 45
  • Call Number: M1500.G68 A5 1783
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc45

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Virtual Music Rare Book Room

The Virtual Music Rare Book Room is composed primarily of digitized materials held in the UNT Music Library's Edna Mae Sandborn Music Rare Book Room. The collection is particularly strong in eighteenth-century French opera, due in large part to the influence of musicologist Lloyd Hibberd on the development of the collection.

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  • 1783

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  • Oct. 17, 2005, 4:47 p.m.

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  • March 16, 2010, 7:15 p.m.

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Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Armide: Drame héroique, mis en musique, score, 1783; Paris. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc45/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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