- Hardcover: 338 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; illustrated edition edition (April 24 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521402875
- ISBN-13: 978-0521402873
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
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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.
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Rouget de Lisle's famous anthem, La marseillaise, admirably reflects the optimism 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.
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