| Series |
Eastman studies in music
Eastman studies in music. ^A494093
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| Contents |
Music, piety, and printing in sixteenth-century France -- The chansons and their listeners -- Courtly love and its spiritual tropes -- The poetry of Marot, the Carnivalesque, and the preacher's voice -- Lasso's chansons and the spiritual self -- The spiritual conversion of Ronsard's poetry -- Lasso's chansons in printed sets -- Authorizing the book -- App. A. The Contrafacta books and their prefaces -- App. B. Printing privileges mentioned in publications of Lasso's music issued by Le Roy et Ballard. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-254) and index. |
| LCCN | 00059945 |
| ISBN | 1580460755 (alk. paper) |
