THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH CANTATA

First printing of the second (revised and expanded) edition. Hardcover. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly spine-faded dustwrapper that is otherwise bright and without loss or tears.

First published in 1974, this is a new, revised and expanded edition of this classic study of one of the most popular musical forms in early eighteenth-century France. It includes a new chapter dealing with the French cantata in performance.