Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of French Motets in the Thirteenth Century: Music, Poetry, and Genre (1994) and Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century France (1989), as well as editor of three of the volumes in the series Le Magnus liber organi de Notre-Dame de Paris.

• List of Illustrations Tables Music Examples Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: The Institution 1.Un delassement honnete et instructif: The City and Music Drama in Restoration Paris 2. L'obligation de jouer le repertoire du premier ordre: Repertory, Infrastructure and Management at the Odeon 3. Cet ensemble si harmonieux et si parfait: The Odeon's Personnel 4. La ferule severe et souvent capricieuse: Control and Consumption Part Two: The Repertory 5. Une heure a l'opera-comique: Occasional Works 6. Rendre service a notre scene lyrique: The Pasticcio 7. Le fruit defendu: Opera Comique and the French Tradition 8. Les heureux etrangers: Italian Music Drama 9. Une lecon de morale: German Music Drama Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of French Motets in the Thirteenth Century: Music, Poetry, and Genre (1994) and Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century France (1989), as well as editor of three of the volumes in the series Le Magnus liber organi de Notre-Dame de Paris.

• List of Illustrations Tables Music Examples Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: The Institution 1.Un delassement honnete et instructif: The City and Music Drama in Restoration Paris 2. L'obligation de jouer le repertoire du premier ordre: Repertory, Infrastructure and Management at the Odeon 3. Cet ensemble si harmonieux et si parfait: The Odeon's Personnel 4. La ferule severe et souvent capricieuse: Control and Consumption Part Two: The Repertory 5. Une heure a l'opera-comique: Occasional Works 6. Rendre service a notre scene lyrique: The Pasticcio 7. Le fruit defendu: Opera Comique and the French Tradition 8. Les heureux etrangers: Italian Music Drama 9. Une lecon de morale: German Music Drama Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index