Download e-book for iPad: The Politics of Plainchant in fin-de-siècle France (Royal by Katharine Ellis

By Katharine Ellis

ISBN-10: 1409463737

ISBN-13: 9781409463733

This booklet tells 3 inter-related tales that significantly modify our standpoint on plainchant reform on the flip of the 20th century and spotlight the worth of liturgical tune background to our figuring out of French executive anticlericalism. It deals right now a brand new historical past of the increase of the Benedictines of Solesmes to professional dominance over Catholic variants of plainchant around the world, a brand new optic at the French liturgical publishing in the course of a interval of foreign concern for the e-book of plainchant notation, and an exploration of ways, either regardless of and thanks to reliable hostility, French Catholics may possibly bend Republican anticlericalism on the maximum point to their very own ends. The narrative relates how Auguste Pécoul, a former French diplomat and Benedictine beginner, masterminded an undercover crusade to assist the Gregorian time table of the Solesmes priests through French executive intervention on the Vatican. His automobile: trades unionists from in the publication undefined, whom he mobilized into nationalist protest opposed to Vatican makes an attempt to enshrine a unmarried, contested, and German, model of the musical textual content as canon legislation. but the political scheming necessitated by means of Pécoul’s double involvement with Solesmes and the print unions nearly spun uncontrolled as his Benedictine contacts struggled with inner department and anticlerical persecution. the consequences are as musicologically major for the learn of Solesmes as they're instructive for the learn of Church-State relations.

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