Jennifer Walker

Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces

Transforming Catholicism Through the Music of Third-Republic Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces provides the first fundamental reconsideration of music's role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church in the Third Republic, revealing how composers and critics from often opposing ideological factions undermined the secular/sacred binary through composition and musical performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780197578056
• ISBN-10: 0197578055
• Artikelnr.: 62113956

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Walker is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on the relationship between sacred music and secular societies, and she is the author of several articles and essays that examine this subject in the context of nineteenth-century France. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Musicological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics
* Chapter 2: Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism
* Chapter 3: Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism
* Chapter 4: Saint-Eustache: The Republic's Sacred Cathedral
* Chapter 5: The Trocadéro: The Republic's Secular Cathedral
* Chapter 6: The Republic's Righteous Woman at the Opéra-Comique: Jules
Massenet's Grisélidis
* Conclusion
* Appendix A: "Les grands oratorios à l'église Saint-Eustache":
Programs
* Appendix B: Jules Massenet's La Terre promise: Biblical References
* Appendix C: Programs of the Ten concerts officiels at the 1900
Exposition Universelle
* Bibliography
* Index