La Musique religieuse en France au XIXe siecle
Le sentiment religieux entre profane et sacre (1830-1914)
edited by Nicolas Dufetel
This volume investigates religious music in France during the 19th century, after the disruption of the French Revolution and the Concordat (1801), until a few years after the Law of Separation of Churches and State (1905). With its various and complicated forms–choral, instrumental, orchestral, etc.- and aesthetic concepts, 19th-century French religious music echoes the many facets of religious life in France, dominated by the Catholic faith, but diversified into many neo-Catholic systems (saint-simonism, humanitarianism, ultramontanism, etc.). Religious music interacts with society, moral philosophy, aesthetics, and politics. Thinkers such as Lamennais, Lacordaire, Montalembert, Dom Gueranger, and Renan, who had a deep influence on their contemporaries, were influential on musicians. The ideas of music writers such as Fetis, d’Ortigue, Felix Clement are also studied. The texts in this volume explore the relation between music and worship, the liturgical movements and reforms, and the adoption of the Roman rite. Of particular interest is the research on plain-chant and its role in liturgy and musical compositions, as well as its intersections with politics. Case studies (Berlioz, Gounod, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Massenet, d’Indy, Faure) illustrate these questions. Finally, several texts investigate the presence of religious elements in cabaret, and the educational or secular repertoire. According to D’Ortigue, If one bases one’s thoughts on what we call ‘religious sentiment’, there are no more rules, no more limits. Religious sentiment allows a global view of secular and sacred conceptions, and explains the great musical variety in a period divided between tradition, science and faith.
This volume investigates religious music in France during the 19th century, after the disruption of the French Revolution and the Concordat (1801), until a few years after the Law of Separation of Churches and State (1905). With its various and complicated forms–choral, instrumental, orchestral, etc.- and aesthetic concepts, 19th-century French religious music echoes the many facets of religious life in France, dominated by the Catholic faith, but diversified into many neo-Catholic systems (saint-simonism, humanitarianism, ultramontanism, etc.). Religious music interacts with society, moral philosophy, aesthetics, and politics. Thinkers such as Lamennais, Lacordaire, Montalembert, Dom Gueranger, and Renan, who had a deep influence on their contemporaries, were influential on musicians. The ideas of music writers such as Fetis, d’Ortigue, Felix Clement are also studied. The texts in this volume explore the relation between music and worship, the liturgical movements and reforms, and the adoption of the Roman rite. Of particular interest is the research on plain-chant and its role in liturgy and musical compositions, as well as its intersections with politics. Case studies (Berlioz, Gounod, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Massenet, d’Indy, Faure) illustrate these questions. Finally, several texts investigate the presence of religious elements in cabaret, and the educational or secular repertoire. According to D’Ortigue, If one bases one’s thoughts on what we call ‘religious sentiment’, there are no more rules, no more limits. Religious sentiment allows a global view of secular and sacred conceptions, and explains the great musical variety in a period divided between tradition, science and faith.
- Edited by Nicolas Dufetel
Other Titles in this Series
Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies
Minor Forms of Musical Theatre in the 18th and 19th Century
Volume 43
Of Signs and Sounds
Musical Interpretation and Performance from the 19th to the 21st Century
Volume 58
Beethoven the European
Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception
Volume 48
En pelerinage avec Liszt
Virtuosos, Repertoire and Performing Venues in 19th-Century Europe
Volume 24
The Sound of Empire
Soundscapes, Aesthetics and Performance between Ancien regime and Restoration
Volume 51
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