French grands motets and their use at the Chapelle Royale from Louis XIV to Louis XVI

From: Musical Times | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Montagnier, Jean-Paul C | Copyright information

REFERRING TO Louis XIV, the Duke of Saint-Simon wrote: 'with an almanac and a watch, even at a distance of three hundred leagues, you could say precisely what he was doing." A king's day had to be perfectly timed so that the officers serving the monarch knew exactly what they should do, when, and how. John McManners went even further in his recent book Church and society in eighteenth-century France and remarked: 'Isolated from the real life of their people within the crowded, unhygienic sple...

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