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The Age of Enlightenment ... (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature. Christian Wolff was the pioneer as ...
In the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, approximately from 1570 to 1650 and peaking from 1610 and 1635, a type of popular secular vocal music called air de cour spread throughout France. Though airs de cour originally used only one voice with lute accompaniment, [ 8 ] they grew to incorporate four to five voices by the end of the 16th ...
Since court culture focused mainly on the arts, women held an almost equal position to men. However, as Enlightenment ideas spread across Europe and in France, monarchies and courtlife fell out of favor with the public. This allowed bourgeois women in the home to create a culture and atmosphere similar to that of Royal life, but with more equality.
The Age of Conversation. Trans. Teresa Waugh. New York: New York Review Books,2005. Benet Davetian "The History and Meaning of Salons" James Ross, 'Music in the French Salon'; in Caroline Potter and Richard Langham Smith (eds.), French Music Since Berlioz (Ashgate Press, 2006), pp. 91–115. ISBN 0-7546-0282-6. Mainardi, Patricia.
The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [1] Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe.
General texts on the Enlightenment, such as Daniel Roche's France in the Enlightenment tend to agree that women were dominant within the salons, but that their influence did not extend far outside of such venues. [31] Antoine Lilti, on the other hand, rejects the notion that women 'governed' conversation in the salons. [32]
French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by the Notre Dame School, an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period.
"The Revolution on Stage: Opera and Politics in France, 1789–1800." National Library of Australia: accessed April 1, 2009. Ravel, Jeffrey S. 1999. The Contested Parterre: Public Theatre and French Political Culture, 1680–1791. New York: Cornell UP. ISBN 978-0-8014-8541-1. Hemmings, F. W. J. 1994. Theatre and State in France, 1760–1905.