Michael O’Dea

Biographic Data

ID5772336
NAMEMichael O’Dea
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEO’Dea
SIGNATUREO’DEA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Dublin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX1

  • Consonances et dissonances: Rousseau et D’Alembert face à l’œuvre théorique de Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Michael O’DeaARTICLERecherches sur Diderot et sur l…2003Cited by: 1

    Cette étude retrace l'évolution de la pensée de d'Alembert sur la musique, telle qu'elle se révèle notamment dans ses contributions à l'Encyclopédie. Les articles de d'Alembert permettent de le situer par rapport à deux autres théoriciens, Rameau, dont il est le vulgarisateur à travers les Elémens de musique, et Jean-Jacques Rousseau, dont le corpus d'articles sur la musique relèvent de lui en tant que responsable de la partie mathématique du gra…

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Open AccessMichael O’DeaBOOKJean-Jacques Rousseau1995

    '...discusses virtually all the musical writings which figure in this tome of the Oeuvres completes and may even be read as a companion volume, providing a key to the understanding of its various text

  • The Early Musical Writings and the Controversy with Rameau

    Michael O’DeaCHAPTERJean-Jacques Rousseau1995

    IN THE LATE seventeen-forties, when he was entrusted with writing the articles on music for the Encyclopédie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was still a relatively obscure figure. His early attempt at a diplomatic career in Venice had ended ignominiously; his previous ventures into music theory and composition had failed or made little impact. Rousseau depicts himself in the Confessions as seizing this new opportunity with febrile energy. He works at a ex…

  • Les Confessions: ‘Ivresse, délires, folies’

    Michael O’DeaCHAPTERJean-Jacques Rousseau1995

    THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH is present everywhere in the Confessions. The first sentence of the preamble introduces a theme that will recur with many variations throughout: ‘Voici le seul portrait d’homme peint exactement d’après nature et dans toute sa vérité, qui existe et qui probablement existera jamais’ (3). Within the text, every comment on the aims and method of the work lays claim to exactness, completeness, frankness; every embarrassing admiss…

  • Rousseau contre Rameau: Musique et nature dans les articles pour l'Encyclopédie et au-delà

    MICHAEL O'DEA, Michael O’DeaARTICLERecherches sur Diderot et sur l…1994

    Michael O'Dea : Rousseau Against Rameau. Music and Nature in the Encyclopédie Articles and beyond. This study suggests that Rousseau's four hundred articles on music for the Encyclopédie have been unjustly neglected. After sketching Rousseau's musical education and recounting his humiliation by Rameau in 1745, the author goes on to argue that Rousseau devoted considerable energy and skill to sustained attacks on Rameau in these articles. Instance…

  • Fiction and the Ideal in Rousseau Juge De Jean-Jaques

    MICHAEL O'DEA, Michael O’DeaARTICLEFrench Studies1986

    FICTION AND THE IDEAL IN ROUSSEAU JUGE DE JEAN-JAQUES MICHAEL O'DEA MICHAEL O'DEA DUBLIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XL, Issue 2, April 1986, Pages 141–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XL.2.141 Published: 01 April 1986