Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Downing A. Thomas
See also Cynthia Verba, Music and the French Enlightenment: Reconstruction of a Dialogue: 1750-1764 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 23-30. 15 Rousseau, Oeuvres completes, v.yi2.. 16 Rameau notes Lully 's masterful setting of the first ...