The Confusion of Diverse Voices: Musical and Social Polyphony in Seventeenth-Century French Opera

Autor:	Ellen R. Welch
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Opera Tragedy Musical Art Aesthetic value medicine Choir Polyphony French opera medicine.symptom business media_common Confusion
Zdroj:	Renaissance Quarterly. 73:567-594
ISSN:	1935-0236 0034-4338
DOI:	10.1017/rqx.2020.5
Popis:	This essay explores how two early modern French writers considered choral music in opera as a figure for society. Pierre Corneille, in his musical tragedy “Andromède,” and scientist and critic Claude Perrault, in several texts about music and acoustics, made subtle apologies for the polyphonic choral song condemned by many contemporaries as unintelligible. Beyond defending the aesthetic value of choral music, Corneille and Perrault associated multi-part song with collective vocalizations offstage, in the real world. Their instructions on how to appreciate choral interludes in opera also served, therefore, to train listeners to attend to the polyphony of society.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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