Music and the French Revolution
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Book Description
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 reorganised 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 organisation 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.
Music and the French Revolution,Malcolm Boyd,Cambridge University Press,0521402875,18th century,Congresses,France,France - History - Revolution And Napoleonic Empire (1789-1815),History,Music,Music Of The 18th Century,Revolution, 1789-1799,Revolutionary music,Songs and music,Music / General
Music and the French Revolution
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