Isis; tragedie mise en musique Metadata

Metadata describes a digital item, providing (if known) such information as creator, publisher, contents, size, relationship to other resources, and more. Metadata may also contain "preservation" components that help us to maintain the integrity of digital files over time.

Available Formats

Dublin Core: XML Dublin Core: JSON Dublin Core: Text Dublin Core: RDF/XML UNTL: XML Access METS: XML

Title

  • Main Title Isis; tragedie mise en musique
  • Uniform Title Isis
  • Added Title Metamorphoses

Creator

  • Composer: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Librettist: Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: J.B.C. Ballard
    Place of Publication: Paris

Date

  • Creation: 1719

Language

  • French

Description

  • Physical Description: score (6,185[i.e. 289] p.)
  • Content Description: Isis, which premiered January 5, 1677, at St. Germain-en-Laye, was the fifth of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques written with librettist Philippe Quinault. The plot is loosely adapted from one of the episodes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In many of its essentials, the plot of Isis resembles that of Lully's previous opera, Atys. In Isis, the nymph Io, daughter of the river Inachus, is promised in marriage to Hierax, just as the nymph Sangaride, daughter of the river Sangar, was promised to Celoenus. Like Sangaride, Io is pursued by another love and yields to this love in spite of her feelings of guilt. Like Sangaride, Io has a goddess as a rival and is vulnerable to her jealousy. Lully's contemporaries interpreted this story as representing the volatile situation between two of the King's mistresses. The subsequent scandale of the premiere ended the collaboration between Lully and Quinault for a time, and led to the dismissal of a number of members of Lully's artistic circle.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Operas -- Scores.
  • Other: Tragédie en musique

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Collection

  • Name: Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
    Code: JBLC
  • Name: Virtual Music Rare Book Room
    Code: VRBR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Music Library
    Code: UNTML

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Musical Score/Notation

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • UNT Catalog No.: b2137871
  • OCLC: 21846682
  • RISM No.: RISM A/I, L 2989
  • Other: LWV 54
  • Call Number: M1500.L95 I7 1719
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc59

Note

Back to Top of Screen