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Summary:

"Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission. After the Revolution, music was an object that could be possesed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music. Musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal expression while the French nation sought to enhance imperial ambitions by appropriating it as the collective product of cultural heritage and national industry. Musicians capitalized on these changes to protect their professionalizatino within new laws and institutions, while excluding those without credentials from their elite echelon. From Servant to Savant demonstrates how the French Revolution set the stage for the emergence of so-called musical "Romanticism" and the legacies that continue to haunt musical institutions and industries. As musicians and the government negotiatied the place of music in a reimagined French society, new epistemic and professional practices constitued three lasting values of musical production: the composer's soverignty, the musical work's inviolability, and the nation's supremacy"--Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. Musical privilege ; Legal privilège and musical production ; Social privilège and musician-Masons
• Part II. Property ; Private property : music and authorship ; Public servants ; Cultural heritage : music as work of art ; National industry : music as a "useful" art and science ; Postlude : a "detractor" breaks his "silence"
• Conclusion : privilege by any other name.

Author/Creator:

Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

From servant to savant: musical privilege, property, and the French Revolution [by Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D.]

Subjects:

Music — Social aspects — France — History — 18th century

Musicians — France — Social conditions — 18th century

Musicians — France — Economic conditions — 18th century

1700-1799

Music

Musicians — Social conditions

Musicians

Musicians — Economic conditions

Music — Social aspects

France

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.

Physical Description:

xvii, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration; music

Call Numbers:

ML3917.F8 G46 2022

ISBNs:

9780197511510 (hardcover)
0197511511 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021033795

OCLC Numbers:

1259048061