Courtly song in late sixteenth-century France. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeanice Brooks.
• Other Names: Brooks, Jeanice
• Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. THE COURT AND THE AIR DE COUR -- The Courts of the Last Valois -- Chansons de la cour beaucoup plus legieres: Defining a Genre -- Courtly Song and Court Culture -- 2. PAYING COURT -- Household Positions and Court Careers -- The Rhetoric of Patronage -- 3. THE CONJUNCTION OF ARMS AND LETTERS -- Lame bien nee: Music as Touchstone of Nobility -- The Education of Achilles -- Music as Weapon in the Warfare of Love: Civility Literature and Military Ideals -- 4. WOMEN'S VOICES -- Women Singers and Women's Songs -- Catherine de Medics, Nouvelle Arthemise: Women's Laments and the Virtue of Grief -- The Art of Civil Conversation: Courtly Neoplatonism and the Dialogue Air -- 5. DIALOGUES WITH ITALY -- Les louanges des Dieux et des bommes vertueux: Arcadelt and Clereau in the service of the Guises -- La musique selon sa perfection: Baif's Academy, The Villanella, and Musique Mesuree -- 6. Pastoral Utopias -- Leslite de tous les bergeers de Gaule: Pastoral Romance and the air de cour -- Rustic Songs and the Rustic Life -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: Documents -- APPENDIX 2: Chamber and Chapel Musicians in Royal Records, 1559-89 -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (560 pages)
• Subjects: 782.4/3/094409031; Songs, French -- France -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Renaissance -- France; Chansons françaises -- France -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Renaissance -- France; Courts and courtiers -- Social life and customs; Renaissance; Songs, French; Air de cour; Hofmusik; Hofmusiker; Hofcultuur; Liederen; France -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs; France -- Cour et courtisans -- Mœurs et coutumes; France; Frankreich; France -- Court and courtiers -- Social life and customs; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226767710
• Related ISBNs: 9780226075877
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