Music And The French Revolution

Author : Malcolm Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521402875

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Music and the French Revolution by Malcolm Boyd Pdf

Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the confidence and enthusiasm of the early years of the French Revolution. But the effects on music of the Revolution and the events that followed it in France were more far-reaching than that. Hymns, chansons and even articles of the Constitution set to music in the form of vaudevilles all played their part in disseminating Revolutionary ideas and principles; music education was reorganized to compensate for the loss of courtly institutions and the weakened maitrises of cathedrals and churches. Opera, in particular, was profoundly affected, in both its organization and its subject matter, by the events of 1789 and the succeeding decade. The essays in this book, written by specialists in the period, deal with all these aspects of music in Revolutionary France, highlighting the composers and writers who played a major role in the changes that took place there. They also identify some of the traditions and genres that survived the Revolution, and look at the effects on music of Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

Author : David Whitwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042345327

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Band Music of the French Revolution by David Whitwell Pdf

Author : Laura Anne Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:612750411

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Singing the French Revolution by Laura Anne Mason Pdf

Author : Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197511510

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From Servant to Savant by Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden Pdf

Introduction -- Part I. Musical Privilege. Legal Privilège and Musical Production ; Social Privilège and Musician-Masons -- Part II. Property. Private Property : Music and Authorship ; Public Servants ; Cultural Heritage : Music as Work of Art ; National Industry : Music as a "Useful" Art and Science -- Postlude : A "Detractor" Breaks his "Silence" -- Conclusion : Privilege by Any Other Name.

Author : Paul F. Rice
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443821803

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British Music and the French Revolution by Paul F. Rice Pdf

British Music and the French Revolution investigates the nature of British musical responses to the cataclysmic political events unfolding in France during the period of 1789–1795, a time when republican and royalist agendas were in conflict in both nations. While the parallel demands for social and political change resulted from different stimuli, and were resolved very differently, the 1790s proved to be a defining period for each country. In Britain, the combination of a protracted period of Tory conservatism, and the strong spirit of patriotism which swept the nation, had a profound influence on the arts. There was an outpouring of concert and theatrical music dealing with the French Revolution and the subsequent war with France. While patriotic songs might be expected when a country is at war, the number of recreations on the London stages of events taking place on the Continent may surprise. Initially, such topical subjects were restricted to the summer or “minor” theatres; however, government restrictions were relaxed after 1793, giving Londoners the opportunity to see topical theatre in the royal or “patent” theatres, as well. The resulting repertoire of plays and recreations (often propagandist in nature) made considerable use of music, and those performed in the “minor” theatres were all-sung. Consequently, there exists a large repertoire of music which has been little studied. British Music and the French Revolution investigates this repertoire within a social and political context. Initial chapters examine the historical relationship between France and Britain from a musical perspective, the powerful symbols of national identity in both countries, and the complex laws that governed commercial theatres in London. Thereafter, the materials are presented in a chronological fashion, starting with the fall of the Bastille in 1789, and the Fête de la Fédération in 1790. The period of the Captivity was one of growing tension and fear in both France and Britain as war became an ever-increasing threat between the two nations. Two subsequent chapters examine the war years of 1793 until first half of 1795. The choice of a five-year period allows the reader to follow British musical reactions to the fall of the Bastille and subsequent events up to the rise of Napoléon.

Author : Robert James Arnold
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783272013

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Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830 by Robert James Arnold Pdf

The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment.

Author : Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Music
ISBN : 019751152X

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From Servant to Savant by Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden Pdf

"From Servant to Savant exposes the fundamental role that the French Revolution played in the emergence of modern professional musicianship and music historiography. Like other arts and trades in Old Regime Paris, music professionalized under a system that regulated activities through legal permissions called privilèges. Musicians learned to work within the privilege system to elevate their legal and social status by the eve of Revolution. But the Revolution's Abolition of Privilege on August 4th, 1789, overthrew this feudal order and set in its place a modern property regime requiring strict delineation between public and private property. Geoffroy-Schwinden reveals the profound musical consequences of this reckoning. Before the Revolution, music was an activity that required permission, after, it was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music-musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal expression while the French nation sought to enhance imperial ambitions by appropriating it as the collective product of cultural heritage and national industry. Musicians capitalized on these changes to protect their professionalization within new laws and institutions while excluding those without credentials from their elite echelon. As musicians and the government negotiated the place of music in a reimagined French society, new epistemic and professional practices constituted three lasting values of musical production: the composer's sovereignty, the musical work's inviolability, and the nation's supremacy. From Servant to Savant thus demonstrates how the French Revolution set the stage for the emergence of so-called musical "Romanticism" and its legacies that continue to haunt musical institutions and industries"--

Author : Mildred Jean Headings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:71233840

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Official Control of Music During the French Revolution by Mildred Jean Headings Pdf

Author : Laura Mason
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728563

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Singing the French Revolution by Laura Mason Pdf

Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature. Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate.Throughout the 1790s, French citizens came to recognize the importance of anthems for promoting their interpretations of revolutionary events, and for championing their aspirations for the Revolution. By opening new arenas of cultural activity and demolishing Old Regime aesthetic hierarchies, revolutionaries permitted a larger and infinitely more diverse population to participate in cultural production and exchange, Mason contends. The resulting activism helps explain the urgency with which successive governments sought to impose an official political culture on a heterogeneous and mobilized population. After 1793, song culture was gradually depoliticized as popular classes retreated from public arenas, middle brow culture turned to the strictly entertaining, and official culture became increasingly rigid. At the same time, however, singing practices were invented which formed the foundation for new, activist singing practices in the next century. The legacy of the Revolution, according to Mason, was to bestow new respectability on popular singing, reshaping it from an essentially conservative means of complaint to an instrument of social and political resistance.

Author : Mark Darlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199773800

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Staging the French Revolution by Mark Darlow Pdf

Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) in the cultural and political context of the early French Revolution. Both institutional history and cultural study, this is the first ever full-scale study of the Revolution and lyric theatre. The book concentrates on three aspects of how a royally-protected theatre negotiates the transition to national theatre: the external dimension, such as questions of ownership and governance and the institution's relationship with State institutions and popular assemblies; the internal management, finances, selection and preparation of works; and the cultural and aesthetic study of the works themselves and of their reception. In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment. Combining recent approaches to institutions, sociability, and authors' rights with cultural studies of opera, Staging the French Revolution takes a historically grounded and methodologically innovative cross-disciplinary approach to opera and persuasively re-evaluates the long-standing, but rather sterile, concept of propaganda.

Author : Étienne Jardin
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music and war
ISBN : 2503570321

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Music and War in Europe by Étienne Jardin Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between music and war from the end of the XVIII century to WWI, and aims to investigate that relationship by adopting a larger time-span: from the end of eighteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. Bringing together more than twenty case studies dealing with several European wars, it also investigates the evolution of the perception of the sound of war, and proposes new perspectives based on recent music and war studies.

Author : Jiří Záloha,Jitřenka Pešková
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : France
ISBN : 8070504978

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Ohlasy Velké francouzské revoluce v hudbě by Jiří Záloha,Jitřenka Pešková Pdf

Author : R.J. Arnold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134803699

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Grétry's Operas and the French Public by R.J. Arnold Pdf

Why, in the dying days of the Napoleonic Empire, did half of Paris turn out for the funeral of a composer? The death of André Ernest Modeste Grétry in 1813 was one of the sensations of the age, setting off months of tear-stained commemorations, reminiscences and revivals of his work. To understand this singular event, this interdisciplinary study looks back to Grétry’s earliest encounters with the French public during the 1760s and 1770s, seeking the roots of his reputation in the reactions of his listeners. The result is not simply an exploration of the relationship between a musician and his audiences, but of developments in musical thought and discursive culture, and of the formation of public opinion over a period of intense social and political change. The core of Grétry’s appeal was his mastery of song. Distinctive, direct and memorable, his melodies were exported out of the opera house into every corner of French life, serving as folkloristic tokens of celebration and solidarity, longing and regret. Grétry’s attention to the subjectivity of his audiences had a profound effect on operatic culture, forging a new sense of democratic collaboration between composer and listener. This study provides a reassessment of Grétry’s work and musical thought, positioning him as a major figure who linked the culture of feeling and the culture of reason - and who paved the way for Romantic notions of spectatorial absorption and the power of music.

Author : Mark Darlow
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199773725

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Staging the French Revolution by Mark Darlow Pdf

In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented opportunity to consider the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment.

Author : Emmet Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300044267

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A Cultural History of the French Revolution by Emmet Kennedy Pdf

Discusses the effects of the Revolution on French painting, music, fiction, theater, philosophy, science, education, and religion