Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 339
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Download or read book Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII written by Peter Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII's grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as 'sounding liturgy' contribute to the wider discourse on absolutism and 'the arts' in early modern France? Taking the scholarship of the so-called 'ceremonialists' as a point of departure, Peter Bennett engages with Weber's seminal formulation of power to consider the contexts in which liturgy, music and ceremonial legitimated the power of a king almost continuously engaged in religious conflict. Numerous musical settings show that David, the psalmist, musician, king and agent of the Holy Spirit, provided the most enduring model of kingship; but in the final decade of his life, as Louis dedicated the Kingdom to the Virgin Mary, the model of 'Christ the King' became even more potent – a model reflected in a flowering of musical publication and famous paintings by Vouet and Champaigne.


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