Walker, Jennifer - Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces

Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces provides the first fundamental reconsideration of music's role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church in the Third Republic, revealing how composers and critics from often opposing ideological factions undermined the secular/sacred binary through composition and musical performance.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics
Chapter 2: Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism
Chapter 3: Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism
Chapter 4: Saint-Eustache: The Republic's Sacred Cathedral
Chapter 5: The Trocadero: The Republic's Secular Cathedral
Chapter 6: The Republic's Righteous Woman at the Opera-Comique: Jules Massenet's Griselidis
Conclusion
Appendix A: Les grands oratorios a l'eglise Saint-Eustache: Programs
Appendix B: Jules Massenet's La Terre promise: Biblical References
Appendix C: Programs of the Ten concerts officiels at the 1900 Exposition Universelle
Bibliography
Index

Series	AMS Studies in Music