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Schwartz, Judith L. French Court Dance and Dance Music: A Guide to primary Source Writings, 1643-1789. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1987.

General Interest

Anthony, James R.: French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau, rev. ed. New York: Norton, 1978.
Benoit, Marcelle.: "Paris, 1661-87: The age of Lully," in The early Baroque era: From the late 16th century to the 1660s. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1994, 238-269.
Demuth, Norman.: French opera, its development to the Revolution. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, 1964.
Heyer, John Hajdu, ed.: Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Isherwood, Robert M.: Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.
La Gorce, Jerome de.: "Les debuts de l'opera francais: Origines et formation de la tragedie en musique," in Les premiers operas en Europe et les formes dramatiques apparentees: Actes du 4e- seminaire international de la Societe Internationale d'Histoire Comparee du Theatre, de l'Opera et du Ballet. Paris: Klincksieck, 1992, 133-140.

Lully Biographies

Beaussant, Philippe.: Lully: ou le musicien du soleil. Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.
Haymann, Emmanuel.: Lulli. Paris: Flammarion, 1991.
La Laurencie, Lionel de.: Lully - Maitres de la musique. New York: Da Capo, 1977.
Scott, Ralph Henry Forster.: Jean-Baptiste Lully: the Founder of French Opera. London: Owen, 1973.

Central ReferenceWorks

Benoit, Marcelle, ed.: Dictionnaire de la musique en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Fayard, 1992.
Girdlestone, Cuthbert Morton.: La tragédie en musique (1673-1750) considérée comme genre littéraire. Genève: Droz, 1972. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, no. 126.
Gustafson, Bruce.: A thematic locator for the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully. New York: Broude, 1989. A listing of all the themes found in Herbert Schneider's thematic catalogue of Lully (LWV; RILM 81-85), accessed by melodic incipit. Variant melodies from 17th- and 18th-c. sources are listed and duplicate LWV numbers derived from the composer's reuse of a given melody are identified. The thematic encoding system is a refinement of that used by Gustafson??.
Lajarte, Théodore de, ed.: Opéra de Paris. Bibliothèque, archives et musée. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1969. Reprint. Originally published: Paris : Librairie des bibliophiles, 1878. A descriptive list of 594 pieces, arranged in order of their first production at the Opéra, 1671-1876.
Pitou, Spire.: The Paris Opéra : an encyclopedia of operas, ballets, composers, and performers. 4 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983-199X???
Recueil général des opéras représentés par l'Académie royale de musique depuis son établissement.: Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1971. Originally published in Paris, 1703-1746.
Schmidt, Carl B., ed.: The livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragedies lyriques: A catalogue raisonne. New York: Performers' Editions, 1995.
Schneider, Herbert.: Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Werke von Jean-Baptiste Lully (LWV). Tutzing: Schneider, 1981. Reviewed in: Revue de musicologie, LXX/2 (1984), 285-87. Massip, Catherine Notes, XL/1 (September 1983), 57-58. Fulcher, Jane Brio, XIX/2 (Fall 1982) 59-60. Bartlett, Clifford Appended in: Notes. XLIV/1 (September 1987) 33-39. Gustafson, Bruce

The operas as a whole

Anthony, James R.: "The musical structure of Lully's operatic airs," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Falk, Marguerite.: "Ein Italiener in Versailles. Jean-Baptiste Lully und die franzosische tragedie-lyrique," Musica, Germany 31:3 (1977), 231-34.
Howard, Patricia.: The operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Surrey, 1970.
Howard, Patricia.: "The Académie Royale and the Performances of Lully's Operas," The Consort 31 (1975), 109-115.
Howard, Patricia.: "Lully and the ironic convention," Cambridge Opera Journal 1:2 (July 1989), 139-153.
Newman, Joyce Enith Watkins.: Jean-Baptiste de Lully and His Tragédies Lyriques. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979.
Norman, Buford.: "The exile of reason: The representation of emotion in the tragedie lyrique," Ars lyrica 7 (1993), 65-74.
Pinson, Jean-Pierre.: "L'action dans le recitatif pathetique de Lully: La declamation," Canadian university music review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes, 5 (1984), 152-78.
Rosow, Lois.: "French Baroque recitative as an expression of tragic declamation," Early Music, 9:4 (October 1983), 468-79.
Rosow, Lois Ann.: "The metrical notation of Lully's recitative," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Schmidt, Carl B.: "The geographical spread of Lully's operas during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: New evidence from the livrets," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.
Schneider, Herbert.: Die Rezeption der Opern Lullys im Frankreich des Ancien Regime. Tutzing: H. Schneider, 1982. From the author's Habilitationsschrift at Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, 1978.
Schneider, Herbert.: "Strukturen der Szenen und Akte in Lullys Opern," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Seares, Margaret.: "Aspects of performance practice in the recitatives of Jean-Baptiste Lully," Studia musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Hungary, vol. 8 (1974) 8-16.

The ballets as a whole

Christout, Marie-Francoise.: "Baptiste, interprete des ballets de cour," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Coeyman, Barbara.: "Lully's influence on the organization and performance of the ballet de cour after 1672," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Ellis, Meredith.: "Inventory of the dances of Jean-Baptiste Lully," Recherches sur la musique francaise classique, France, vol. 9 (1969), 21-55.
Harris-Warrick, Rebecca.: "La mariee: The history of a French court dance," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.
Harris-Warrick, Rebecca.: "From score into sound: Questions of scoring in Lully's ballets," Early Music 21:3 (August 1993), 354-362.
Launay, Denise.: "Les airs italiens et francais dans les ballets et les comedies-ballets," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Little, Meredith.: "Problems of repetition and continuity in the dance music of Lully's Ballet des arts," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Prunieres, Henry.: "Les premiers ballets de Lully," Revue Musicale, 398-399 (1987), 7-23. Reprint of an article appearing June 1931.

Lully's Collaborators

Brooks, William.: "Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1673-86," Seventeenth-Century French Studies, no. 10 (1988), 101-21; supplement in no. 11 (1989), 147-150.
Brooks, William.: "17th-century culture: Quinault and Lully resurgent," French Studies 47 (July 1993), 17-19.
Fricke, Dietmar.: "Moliere et Lully: Une symbiose artistique sans suite?," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Gros, Étienne.: Philippe Quinault: sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: Champion, 1926.
Hibberd, Lloyd.: "Mme de Sévigné and the Operas of Lully," in Essays in Musicology: a Birthday Offering to Willi Apel. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1968, 153-163.
Jones, Dorothy F.: Jean de Campistron, a Study of His Life and Work. University, Mississippi: Romance Monographs, 1979.
Kapp, Volker.: "Benserade, librettiste de Lully et panegyriste du roi," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
La Gorce, Jerome de.: "Un proche collaborateur de Lully: Philippe Quinault," Dix-septieme siecle no. 161, (October-December 1988), 365-370.
Massip, Catherine.: "Michel Lambert and Jean-Baptiste Lully: The stakes of a collaboration," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.
Moroney, Davitt.: "Chambonnieres and his 'belle maniere'," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Prunieres, Henry.: "La Fontaine et Lully," Revue Musicale, 398-399 (1987), 49-64. Reprint of an article appearing August 1921.
Quetin, Laurine.: "Quinault, librettiste entre le tragique et le romanesque: Amadis de Gaule," in Les ecrivains francais et l'opera. Koln: DME, 1986, 19-37.
Schmidt, Carl B.: "Livrets for Lully's ballets and mascarades: Notes toward a publishing history and chronology (1654-1671)," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Silin, Charles I.: Benserade and his Ballets de Cour. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1940. ["Extra Volume XV" of the Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages.]

Music and Society in the Age of Louis XIV

Bauman, Thomas, and Marita Petzoldt, eds.: Opera and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Benoit, Marcelle.: Musiques de cour, chapelle, chambre, ecurie, recueil de documents 1661-1733. Paris: Picard, 1971. Series: La vie musicale en France sous les rois Bourbons vol. 20.
Benoit, Marcelle.: L'Europe musicale au temps de Louis XIV. Paris: Editions Aug. Zurfluh, 1993.
Benoit, Marcelle.: Les musiciens du roi de France, 1661-1733: étude sociale. 2nd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaries de France, 1998.
Howard, Patricia.: "The influence of the Precieuses on content and structure in Quinault's and Lully's tragedies lyriques," Acta musicologica, 63:1 (January-March 1991), 57-72.
Howard, Patricia.: "Quinault, Lully, and the precieuses: Images of women in seventeenth-century France," in Cecilia reclaimed: Feminist perspectives on gender and music. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1994, 70-89.
Karro, Francoise.: "L'empire ottoman et l'Europe dans l'opera francais et viennois au temps du Lully," ???
La Gorce, Jerome de.: "L'Opéra et son public au temps de Louis XIV," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France 108 (1981), 27-46.
La Gorce, Jerome de.: "L'opéra français à la cour de Louis XIV," Revue de la Société d'histoire du théâtre 35 (1983-84), 387-401.
La Gorce, Jerome de, Josiane Bran-Ricci, Claude Mercier-Ythier, eds.: Lully, un age d'or de l'opera francais. Drouot Montaigne Exhibition Catalogue. Paris: Cicero, 1991
Pruniers, Henry.: "Lully and the Académie de Musique et de Dance," Musical Quarterly 11 (1925), 528-546.
Rice, Paul Francis.: The Performing Arts at Fontainebleau from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1989.
Rosow, Lois.: "From Destouches to Berton: Editorial Responsibility at the Paris Opéra," Journal of the American Musicological Society 40 (1987), 285-309.
Schneider, Herbert.: "Dokumente zur französischen Oper von 1659 bis 1699," in Quellentexte zur Konzeption der europäischen Oper im 17. Jahrhundert, ed. Heinz Becker. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1981. Series: Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten Vol. 27, pp ??.
Sonnino, Paul, ed.: The Reign of Louis XIV : Essays in Celebration of Andrew Lossky. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1990.
Zaslaw, Neal.: "The first opera in Paris: A study in the politics of art," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.

The Individual Operas

Achille et Polixene

Amadis

Seares, Margaret.: "The French classical tradition of music as seen in a comparison of Lully's Amadis and Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie," MA dissertation, University of Western Australia, 1973.

Armide

Reckow, Fritz.: "'Cacher l'Art par l'Art meme': Lullys Armide-Monolog und die Kunst des Vergebens," in Analysen: Beitrage zu einer Problemgeschichte des Komponierens. Festschrift fur Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Werner Breig, Reinhold Brinkmann, and Elmar Budde. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984, p. 128-57. Supplement to Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 23.
Rosow, Lois Ann.: Lully's Armide at the Paris Opera: a performance history, 1686-1766. Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 1981.
Rosow, Lois Ann.: "How eighteenth-century Parisians heard Lully's operas: The case of Armide's fourth act," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.

Atys

Browne, Marilyn K.: "Opera and the Galant Homme: Quinault' and Lully's Tragédie en musique, Atys, in the context of seventeenth-century Modernism." MM thesis, University of North Texas, 1994.
L'avant-scène opéra, no. 94 (1987).: Atys issue.
McKenna, Ilene M.R.: "Atys: Le petit drole qui faisait la Furie et la Nourrice," MM thesis, University of London, King's College, 1989.

Bellerophon

Isis

Duggan, C.: "Isis and the development of Lully's French style," MM thesis, University of Durham, 1986.

Persée

Legrand, Raphaelle.: "Persee de Lully et Quinault: Orientation pour l'analyse dramaturgique d'une tragedie en musique," Analyse Musicale 27 (April 1992), 9-14.

Phaëton

Proserpine

Roland

Zephire et Flore

After Lully

Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C.,: "A musician's view of the French Baroque after the advent of Gluck: Gretry's Les trois ages de l'opera and its context," in Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French Baroque: essays in honor of James R. Anthony, ed. John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. XX-XXX.
Fuller, David R.: "Les arrangements pour clavier des oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste Lully," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Grout, Donald Jay.: "Seventeenth Century Parodies of French Opera," Musical Quarterly 27 (1941) 211-219, 514-526.
Gustafson, Bruce.: "The legacy in instrumental music of Charles Babel, prolific transcriber of Lully's music," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Noske, Frits.: "L'influence de Lully en Hollande (1670-1700)," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Ranum, Patricia M.: "'Mr. de Lully en trio': Etienne Loulie, the Foucaults, and the transcription of the works of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1673-1702)," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.
Weber, William.: "Lully and the rise of musical classics in the 18th century," in Jean-Baptiste Lully. Congress Report from the 1987 meeting in Heidelbert and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ed. Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft no. 18. Laaber, Germany: Laaber Verlag, 1990, XX-XXX.