Author : Robert M. Isherwood
Release : 1973
Genre : History
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Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century write by Robert M. Isherwood. This book was released on 1973. Music in the Service of the King: France in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The arts, particularly music, are viewed in this work as an integral part of evolving royal absolutism during the reign of Louis XIV. Drawing extensively on archival documents and musical scores, the author views the historical association of music and monarchy as a continuous development beginning with the Valois and climaxing in Louis XIV’s reign. The king is pictured as a rational, calculating man whose luxurious life style was politically motivated, and who undertook the centralization of the arts to assure French artistic preeminence. Elaborate, costly musical productions were also used to distract the nobility, to demonstrate French affluence to foreign powers, and to embellish the royal image.