This book explains the relationships between music, pantomime and freedom in pre-Revolutionary France. It argues that composers and performers recognized their

How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the

Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer, and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his lifelong interest in music.