Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France / Jeanice Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Jeanice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs, French--France--16th century--History and criticism.

Songs, French.

Music--France--16th century--History and criticism.

Music.

France--Court and courtiers--Social life and customs.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

The Courts of the Last Valois

Chansons de la cour beaucoup plus legieres: Defining a Genre

Courtly Song and Court Culture

Introduction

Household Positions and Court Careers

The Rhetoric of Patronage

L'ame bien nee: Music as Touchstone of Nobility

The Education of Achilles

Music as Weapon in the Warfare of Love: Civility Literature and Military Ideals

Women Singers and Women's Songs

Catherine de Medicis, nouvelle Arthemise. Women's Laments and the Virtue of Grief

The Art of Civil Conversation: Courtly Neoplatonism and the Dialogue Air

Les louanges des Dieux et des hommes vertueux. Arcadelt and Clereau in the Service of the Guises

La musique selon sa perfection: Ba'if's Academy, the Villanella, and musique mesuree

L'eslite de tous les bergers de Gaule: Pastoral Romance and the air de cour

Rustic Songs and the Rustic life

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226767710

022676771X

OCLC:

1191863732