Music and the French Revolution - Softcover

Boyd, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521081874 ISBN 13: 9780521081870

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the optimism 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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521081874
• ISBN 13: 9780521081870
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340