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Description

1. x, 355 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.

Summary

1. "This book is the first comprehensive study that reevaluates music's role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church at the end of the nineteenth century. As the divide between Church and State widened on the political stage, more and more composers began writing religious-even liturgical-music for performance in decidedly secular venues, including popular cabaret theaters, prestigious opera houses, and international exhibitions: a trend that coincided with Pope Leo XIII's Ralliement politics that encouraged conservative Catholics to "rally" with the Republican government. But the idea of a musical Ralliement has largely gone unquestioned by historians and musicologists alike who have long accepted a somewhat simplistic epistemological position that emphasizes a sharp division between the Church and the "secular" Republic during this period. Drawing on extensive archival research, critical reception studies, and musical analysis, this book reveals how composers and critics from often opposing ideological factions undermined the secular/sacred binary. From the opera house and niche puppet theaters to Parisian parish churches and Montmartre's famed cabarets, composers and critics from opposing ideological factions used music in their effort to craft a brand of Frenchness that was built on the dual foundations of secular Republicanism and the heritage of the French Catholic Church"--

Series statement

1. AMS studies in music series

Uniform title

1. AMS studies in music.

Subject

1. 1800-1940
2. Church music > Catholic Church > 19th century
3. Church music > France > 19th century
4. Sacred music > France > 19th century > History and criticism
5. Church music
6. Church music > Catholic Church
7. Sacred music
8. France > History > Third Republic, 1870-1940
9. France

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics -- Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism -- Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism -- Saint-Eustache : The Republic's Sacred Cathedral -- The Trocadéro : The Republic's Secular Cathedral -- 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.

Call number

1. JME 22-6

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.

Author

1. Walker, Jennifer (Jennifer P.), author.

Title

1. Sacred sounds, secular spaces : transforming Catholicism through the music of Third-Republic Paris / Jennifer Walker.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. AMS studies in music series
2. AMS studies in music.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1940

Other form:

1. Online version: Walker, Jennifer (Jennifer P.) Sacred sounds, secular spaces New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 9780197578070 (DLC) 2021016366

LCCN

1. 2021016365

ISBN

1. 9780197578056 hardcover
2. 0197578055 hardcover

Research call number

1. JME 22-6