The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652 LaTour Melinda
The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652 LaTour Melinda The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread…
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The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652 LaTour Melinda
The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Moral song collections enlarged interest in Stoic philosophy by circulating its ethical program to a broader audience through attractive paraphrases of Stoic maxims set to music. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and philosophy therapeutic power, composers and performers across the embattled Catholic and Protestant confessions turned to moral song as a means of repairing personal and collective virtue damaged by the ongoing conflict.
Bringing together a Even more importantly, this skillfully composed repertoire of polyphonic song offered a multi-sensory moral practice that would have resonated powerfully for those well-versed in the paradoxes of the Stoic tradition.
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