Rondeau du Roman Chanté par Cn. Dereubel ... Prix 1tt. 16s
Paris: Frères Gaveaux, [Ca. 1797].
Folio. Disbound. 4 pp.
With text commencing "Je sais avec adresse porter un billet doux" from Plantade's opera Le Roman.
Journal de la Lyre d'Orphée, 3e Année No 35.
Spine reinforced with tissue; publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower outer corner of page 1.
Not in RISM.
"Plantade's music is consistent with French style at the turn of the 19th century. His formal background as a singing teacher is reflected both in the preponderance of vocal works in his output and the sympathetic quality of his melodies, which are pleasant, if undistinguished." Laurie Schulman in Grove Music Online.
"The term ‘rondò’ was often used loosely, along with ‘rond’ and ‘rondeau’, terms frequently applied to what is now identified as the vocal rondò with a recurring theme in the tonic key that creates the basic pattern ABACA. Arias identified by any of these terms tend to express moments of high emotional intensity... Since ‘rondò’ identified an aria of special distinction, composers were not above appealing to the vanity of their singers by assigning the term to arias that were clearly not rondòs in form, content or placement. In 19th-century opera, the form of the rondò became modified and its musical content expanded, the term often being applied loosely to any second-act aria for a principal singer in a two-act opera." Don Neville in Grove Music Online.
Item #36090
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