Catholicism as Musical Discourse
The Reconversion of Women through Seventeenth-Century French Sacred Songs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197567173
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 237x167x22 mm
- Weight 531 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 76 music examples 700
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Short description:
Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century. By singing sacred songs--called cantiques, spiritual or devotional airs--reformers believed that principles of Catholicism would be easier to learn, remember, and affect women's behavior. This book shows that various interpretations of Catholicism were not only transformed over time but also how and why. Most importantly, it demonstrates that sacred songs became a part of the Catholic Church's effort to mediate and shape the role of women in French society.
MoreLong description:
Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century. Thought to be one of the best ways to facilitate a deeper spiritual experience and alter behavior, sacred songs became a part of the Catholic Church's effort to mediate and shape the role of women in French society. Whether contrafacta of secular songs or newly composed texts and music, sacred songs (cantiques, airs spirituel, or airs de dévotion) were non-liturgical and written primarily by clergymen. The songs gave voice to various, even contradictory, interpretations of Catholicism. Some texts were educational, some expressed a female religiosity focusing on love for Jesus and God, and some communicated Jansenist notions regarding sin and penitence. The intended public--women--determined the repertory's discursive properties: the messages communicated, language used, prescribed function(s), and musical features.
Through an analysis of the musical repertory over time, Catholicism as Musical Discourse demonstrates how transformations within the church were linked to religious, political, and social and cultural trends, including the wars of religion, the fight against libertinism, Louis XIV's relationship with the church, the need to convert lay women to a life of piety, the condemnation of mysticism, the rise and fall of Jansenism, the need for female educational institutions, and an increasing public interest in connecting religious devotion with pleasurable entertainments. Although the songs' styles and lyrics changed over time, the power of music as one of the most important discursive modes of communication during the Catholic Reform remained the same.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Women, Sacred Songs, and the Catholic Reform
Discursive Parameters in Sacred Songs (1600â1650)
Mysticism and Jean-Joseph Surinâs Cantiques spirituels: The Language of God and the Songs of Paradise
Fran?
ois Berthodâs Airs de d??votion for Honn??tesFemmes, Novitiates, and Nuns
Bertrand de Bacilly: Les Airs spirituels and Seventeenth-Century Rigorism
Bertrand de Bacillyâs Airs spirituels and the Musical Education of Girls
Sacred Songs, Pleasure, and the Triumph of Popular Taste
Conclusion: Feminism in Context: An Interpretation
