fragments

fragments conveys essentially the same notion in both French and English, but it has a special meaning when it is used in connection with the French lyric theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this instance, the word appears most often in titles such as Les Fragments de Lully a work composed of “fragments” or extracts from previous works by Jean-Baptiste Lully (see seventeenth-century volume for Lully and Les Fragments de Lully). A program of “fragments” was precisely the same…