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The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common th

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.Patrons have long

During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for

A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.

Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, i