6: Paris of the Ancien Régime

Johnson, James H. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)

Kushner, Nina. Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013)

Michel-Jean Sedaine (1710–1792): Theatre, Opera and Art, ed. David Charlton and Mark Ledbury (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) Worldcat

Mongrédien, Jean, “Paris: the End of the Ancien Régime,” The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the End of the 18th Century, ed. Neal Zaslaw (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989),61-98 Worldcat

Drawing by Georg Wille of an opéra comique, possibly Monsigny's Le Roi et le fermier, being performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1767

Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Charissa Bremer-David (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011) Worldcat

Rosow, Lois. "Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau," The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, Simon Keefe, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 272–92 Worldcat

Schwartz, Judith L. “François-Joseph Gossec,” The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, ed. Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), 585–626 Worldcat

Thomas, Downing A. Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647–1785 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Worldcat

Thomas, Downing, A, "Music," in The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment, ed. Daniel Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 167–83

Verba, Cynthia. Music and the French Enlightenment: Reconstruction of a Dialogue, 1750–1764 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) Worldcat

Verba, Cynthia. Dramatic Expression in Rameau's Tragédie en Musique: Between Tradition and Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) Worldcat

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