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From servant to savant : musical privilege, property, and the French Revolution /

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From Servant to Savant exposes the fundamental role that the French Revolution played in the emergence of modern professional musicianship and music historiography. Like other arts and trades in Old Regime Paris, music professionalized under a system that regulated activities through legal permissio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Music > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Musicians > France > Social conditions > 18th century.
Musicians > France > Economic conditions > 18th century.
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.