Arts and humanities
> Monday, December 9, 2024 at 2pm
Interview with Marie Demeilliez, lecturer in musicology at UGA, and Thomas Soury, lecturer at Lyon 2 University, on their book Produits dérivés et économie des spectacles lyriques en France (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle).
From the very beginning of its history, French opera has given rise to the production and distribution of numerous objects, in parallel with its performances: selected pieces of arias to be sung or played, arrangements and transcriptions delight music lovers, while representing interesting commercial opportunities for publishers, arrangers and copyists. Secular and spiritual parodies give new life to many opera fragments.
Prints and engravings preserve and disseminate the visual memory of the performances. The result of a series of meetings held in Grenoble, Lyon and Royaumont, this volume brings together a number of case studies by researchers from different disciplines (musicology, literature, history, dance).
Each researcher has been willing to test the heuristic potential of the notion of "derivative products" on a practice or corpus from his or her own field. In addition, two "conversations" with a collector and a harpsichordist demonstrate how research into the "by-products" of the past nourishes today's musical practice.
Following this presentation, a dance concert will be given at MaCI at 4pm.
Jean-Luc Ho (harpsichordist) and Hubert Hazebroucq (dancer and choreographer) will present some of the finest pages of the Grand Siècle choreographic repertoire, set to music from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully and André Campra.
