Details
First Published: 31 Jan 2001
13 Digit ISBN: 9781580460750
Pages: 284
Size: 9 x 6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series:
Eastman Studies in MusicSubject:
MusicBIC Class: AV
Details updated on 10 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 Music, Piety, and Printing in Sixteenth-Century France
- 2 The Chansons and Their Listeners
- 3 Courtly Love and Its Spiritual Tropes
- 4 The Poetry of Marot, the Carnivalesque, and the Preacher's Voice
- 5 Lasso's Chansons and the Spiritual Self
- 6 The Spiritual Conversion of Ronsard's Poetry
- 7 Lasso's Chansons in Printed Sets
- 8 Authorizing the Book
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of understanding a particular community of Renaissance readers and the music books they created. Lasso's secular songs figured quite prominently in a number of collections of devotional songs issued by Protestant printers in the late sixteenth century. Lasso's profane lyrics were changed to convey spiritual meanings. This study uses the example of such reworkings as a means of discovering how such a repertory was heard and understood by a particular community of listeners, and in so doing, it explores the history of these chansons in print, and the history of the spiritual attitudes that shaped their reception among the Huguenots.
Richard Freedman is associate professor of music at Haverford College.
Reviews
A very useful volume for the study of this period of musical history. --CHOICE
A well-researched and informative study. --EARLY MUSIC
Freedman's sensitive exposition of musico-textual meaning serves as a model for how to approach any texted sixteenth-century genre...Freedman's book is a uniquely positioned reception study that draws on a sixteenth-century audience's own responses to the realms of meaning inherent in a specific oeuvre. --JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
