Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France
Brooks, Jeanice (2001) Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France, Chicago, USA, University of Chicago Press, 560pp.
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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
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 9780226075877 (hardback) |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > Music |
| Item ID: | 68952 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:13 |
| Contributors: | Brooks, Jeanice (Author) |
| Date: | February 2001 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/68952 |
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