Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
Author: Kate van Orden
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0226849767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society. Van Orden constructs a fresh account of music's importance in promoting the absolutism that the French monarchy would fully embrace under Louis XIV, uncovering many hitherto unpublished ballets and royal ceremonial performances. The great pressure on French noblemen to take up the life of the warrior gave rise to bellicose art forms such as sword dances and equestrian ballets.