1 online resource (xxvi, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music
Contents
Introduction : Singing stoicism -- Neostoic remedies -- Imprinting virtue -- The exercise of harmony -- Musical paradoxes -- Sensing beauty -- Sound judgment -- Moral ordering -- Rehearsing death -- Conclusion : Suspensions of desire -- Appendix 1. Musical settings of moral poetry -- Appendix 2. Organization of moral song collections
Summary
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, revealing that virtue--as voiced in these Stoic practices--proves to be both rational and fully invested in the sensory processes of the singing body
