Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII
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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

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Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII

Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108906043
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Music Examples
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Note on the Texts
  11. Introduction: Music, Liturgy, and Power
  12. 1 David's Harp, Apollo's Lyre: Psalms, Music, and Kingship in the Sixteenth Century
  13. 2 Accession: The Coronation, the Holy Spirit, and the Phoenix
  14. 3 The Sword of David and the Battle against Heresy
  15. 4 The Penitent King
  16. 5 Pillars of Justice and Piety: The Entrée, the Te Deum, and the Exaudiat te Dominus
  17. 6 Plainchant and the Politics of Rhythm: The Royal Abbey of Montmartre and the Royal Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus Christ
  18. 7 Succession: The Vow of 1638 and Christ the King
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index