The Chansons of Orlando Di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners

Typhus and Tunisia
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-58046-075-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 284 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

A study of how the secular lyrics of the French composer Orlando di Lasso were reworked by Protestant printers in the sixteenth century to convey new spiritual meanings.

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 theexample 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 thespiritual attitudes that shaped their reception among the Huguenots.

Richard Freedman is Associate Professor of Music at Haverford College.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freedman, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Mittelalter & Renaissance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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