The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652

ISBN-13: 9780197529744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str.

Melinda LaTour

Recenzje

Can music make us better people? In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Melinda Latour demonstrates how the understudied genre of moral song in the late French Renaissance created a distinctive Stoic sonic world to repair religious conflict and civil strife. The Voice of Virtue makes important links between late Renaissance moral philosophy, devotional poetry, painting, and musical expression. With its wide range of musical illustrations and online links it enables us to appreciate for the first time the intimate beauty of a body of music that has so often been overlooked, and to understand its serious purpose.

O autorze

Melinda Latour is Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Arts and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University. Her scholarship on early music has appeared in Music and Letters, the Journal of Musicology, and the Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music. She has recently published an edited collection (co-edited with Robert Fink and Zachary Wallmark), The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (2018), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.