Music and the French Revolution by Malcolm Boyd

Music and the French Revolution by Malcolm Boyd

Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the confidence and enthusiasm of the early years of the French Revolution. But the effects on music of the Revolution and the events that followed it in France were more far-reaching than that. Hymns, chansons and even articles of the Constitution set to music in the form of vaudevilles all played their part in disseminating Revolutionary ideas and principles; music education was reorganized to compensate for the loss of courtly institutions and the weakened maitrises of cathedrals and churches. Opera, in particular, was profoundly affected, in both its organization and its subject matter, by the events of 1789 and the succeeding decade. The essays in this book, written by specialists in the period, deal with all these aspects of music in Revolutionary France, highlighting the composers and writers who played a major role in the changes that took place there. They also identify some of the traditions and genres that survived the Revolution, and look at the effects on music of Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

After a successful career in advertising and television, Malcolm Boyd was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955. When he said his prayers accompanied by some of America's best-known musicians, he was called the coffeehouse priest by Time Magazine in the 1960s. Boyd has a lengthy history of civil rights activism, beginning with a Freedom Ride in 1996. In Indianapolis, Colorado, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Santa Monica, Calif., he served parishes and college chaplaincies. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his two-decade-long boyfriend, Mark Thompson, an novelist, editor, and therapist.

Boyd, a poet and writer-in-residence at the Cathedral Center of St. Louis, is the author of multiple publications. Paul is a priest in the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese.

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ISBN 13	9780521081870
ISBN 10	0521081874
Title	Music and the French Revolution
Author	Malcolm Boyd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2008-09-18
Number of pages	344
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