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Louis XIV and his court at Versailles had a profound influence on music in France and throughout Europe. In 1660 Louis visited Aix-en-Provence, a trip that resulted in political and cultural transformations throughout the region. Soon thereafter Aix became an important center of sacred music composition, eventually rivaling Paris for the quality of the composers it produced. John Hajdu Heyer documents the young king's visit and examines how he and his court deployed sacred music to enhance the royal image and secure the loyalty of the populace. Exploring the circle of composers at Aix, Heyer provides the most up-to-date and complete biographies in English of nine key figures, including Guillaume Poitevin, André Campra, Jean Gilles, François Estienne, and Antoine Blanchard. The book goes on to reveal how the history of political power in the region was reflected through church music, and how musicians were affected by contemporary events.

Music --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Church music --- Composers --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- History --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Louis --- Lodewijk --- le Roi-Soleil --- Louis le Grand --- de Zonnekoning

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This book provides a collection of some 400 passages on music from early Christian literature - New Testament to c. 450 AD - newly translated from the original Greek, Latin, and Syriac. As there are no musical sources of the period, music historians must rely upon remarks about music in literary sources to gain some knowledge of early Christian liturgical music. This volume makes a large and representative collection of the material conveniently available. The passages are arranged chronologically and regionally in eleven chapters with brief commentary. An introduction sets out the major subjects and themes of the original source material.

Music --- Patrology --- Muziek en literatuur --- -Music and literature --- -Literature and music --- -Religieuze muziek --- -246.8 --- -246.8 Religieuze muziek --- Church music --- Music and literature --- 246.8 --- 246.8 Religieuze muziek --- Religieuze muziek --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- Sources --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Musique d'église --- Musique et littérature --- Musique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- To 500 --- 78.90 --- Sources. --- Philosophy and aesthetics.

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Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West. The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and monasteries wereresponsible for calculating the date of Easter and the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of time, and promoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties also often included committing the past to writing, from simple annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and individuals could be commemorated for generations to come.
The contributions hereseek to address the fundamental question of how the range of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated acrossthe middle ages. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages; the essays are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and ofthe people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records.

Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Alison I. Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, A.B. Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes, Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjoryn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber, Lauren Whitnah,

Church history --- Church music --- Civilization, Medieval --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Cantors (Church music) --- Chantres --- Eglise --- Musique d'église --- Civilisation médiévale --- Histoire --- Musique d'église --- Civilisation médiévale --- Church history -- Middle Ages --- Historiography --- Middle Ages --- Catholic Church --- History --- Katholische Kirche --- 500-1500 --- Church musicians --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Katolikus Egyház --- RCC --- Katoličeskaj Cerkovʹ --- Katoličke Cerkve --- Katolska Cyrkej --- Katolske Kirke --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Igreja Católica --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Roman Catholic Church --- Eglise Catholique --- Eglise Catholique Romaine --- Chiesa Cattolica --- Katholieke Kerk --- Iglesia Católica --- Katolické Církve --- Kościoł Katolicki --- Katoličke Crkve --- Eglise catholique romaine --- Chiesa cattolica romana --- Roman catholic Church --- Eglise catholique --- Römische Kirche --- Kirche --- Katholizismus --- Unierte Ostkirchen --- Medieval Period --- Christian church history --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- Cantors. --- Catholic Church. --- Christianity. --- Church History. --- Church music. --- Divine Office. --- Historiography. --- Liturgy. --- Medieval Europe. --- Medieval Latin West. --- Middle Ages. --- Necrologies. --- Prayer. --- Religion. --- Ritual Remembrance. --- Sacred song. --- Saint.