Musique et societe: le modele d'Arles a l'epoque de l'absolutisme, 1600-1789.

Notes | September 1, 1996| | Copyright

By Marc Signorile. (Vie musicale dans les provinces francaises, 8.) Geneva: Editions Minkoff, 1993. [321 p. ISBN 2-8266-0910-6.]

From early times Arles distinguished itself as a vital musical center. By the middle of the first-century, the old Greek settlement at Arles had evolved into a Roman colony that then became a center for the development and preservation of Christian church music. A choir school founded in the eighth-century developed to the extent that, along with its troubadour activity, Arles saw lively and rich musical activity throughout the later middle ...

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