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Ut musica poesis: Music and Poetry in France in the Late Sixteenth Century

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Howard Mayer Brown
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By praising rulers, whose magnificence formed a crucial part of the world order, Pierre de Ronsard and his French colleagues in the second half of the sixteenth century often depicted the world not as it was but as it ought to be. This idea informs Margaret McGowan's book on ideal forms in the age of Ronsard, in which she explores the ways poets and painters extolled the virtues and the theatrical magnificence of perfect princes following the Horatian dictum ut pictura poesis: as is painting so is poetry. McGowan demonstrates the virtuosity of the painters and poets of the sixteenth century in shaping their hymns of praise from the subject matter and ideals of ancient Greece and Rome by following Horace's advice to regard paintings as mute poems and poems as speaking pictures. McGowan shows how artists and intellectuals pursued their goals by creating four kinds of ideal form: iconic forms, sacred images derived from classical literary sources offering princes some guarantee of immortality; triumphal forms that evoke the heroic imperial past; ideal forms of beauty to be found in contemplating the beloved; and dancing forms that mirror rituals of celebration. McGowan claims that such ideal forms were intended to enlighten the ruler himself as much as they celebrated his grandeur in the eyes of others.

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Early Music History , Volume 13 , October 1994 , pp. 1 - 63
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24 The best examples of music published as apparently vocal polyphony but performed in a variety of ways are the commemorative editions of Italian intermedi, on which see, among other studies, Brown, H. M., Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: the Music for the Florentine Intermedii, Musicological Studies and Documents 30 (Rome, 1973)Google Scholar. The early sixteenth-century repertory of frottolas constitutes another large group of compositions published as vocal polyphony but either intended primarily as solo songs, else most often performed in that way. There are also, of course, the innumerable sixteenth-century versions of vocal polyphony arranged for lute or keyboard, whose existence suggests that performers felt free to arrange in a variety of ways the music they found in printed and manuscript sources.

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38 La Grotte's setting of Ronsard's hymn is published in a modern edition in Expert, La fleur, pp. 56–7. Models to follow in studying courtly (and other) festivities may be found in the three volumes on Les fêtes de la Renaissance, ed. Jacquot, J. (Paris, 1956–1975)Google Scholar, even though few of the essays deal with music.

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71 See note 39 above.

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75 For studies of Baïf and his circle, see note 41 above.

76 For a beginning in this direction, see F. Dobbins, ‘Les madrigalistes français et la Pléiade’ and J.-P. Ouvrard, ‘La chanson française du XVIe siècle: lecture du texte poétique’, La chanson à la Renaissance, ed. Vaccaro, , pp. 157–71 and 106–19Google Scholar.

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78 All three appear in Lassus, Kompositionen mit französischem Text, ii. On Susanne un jour, see Levy, K. J., ‘“Susanne un jour”: the History of a 16th Century Chanson’, Annales Musicologiques, 1 (1953), pp. 375–408Google Scholar.

79 La fleur de poésie françoyse: recueil joyeulx contenant plusieurs huictains, dixains, quatrains, chansons & aultres dictez de diverses matières, mis en nottes musicalles par plusieurs auiheurs (Paris: Alain Lotrian, 1543)Google Scholar. The volume was republished in a modern edition in Raretés bibliographiques … pour une société de bibliophiles (Paris, 1864)Google Scholar. The title suggests that the collection was made by selecting texts that had already been set to music (mostly from Attaingnant's anthologies of polyphonic song). I am grateful to Kate van Orden for pointing out the importance of this particular collection.

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82 On the question of Italian influence and Petrarchism, see, among other studies, Weber, H., La création poétique au XVIe siècle en France (Paris, 1955), esp. pp. 12–22 and 231–6Google Scholar.

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84 Le Jeune's modally ordered motets are published in a modern edition in Le Jeune, Dodécacorde, ed. Heider. On modal ordering in Bertrand's chansons, see Brooks, ‘ “Ses amours et les miennes tout ensemble” ’.

85 On the literary tradition of imitating Greek odes, see Delboulle, A., Anacréon et les poèmes anacréontiques: texte grec avec les traductions et imitations des poètes du XVIe siècle (Geneva, 1970)Google Scholar; and Rosenmeyer, P., The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition (New York, 1992)Google Scholar.

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87 Appendix 7 is derived from Lesure and Thibault, Bibliographie des éditions d'Adrian Le Roy et Robert Ballard.

88 Janequin's psalms, for which only a single bass partbook survives, are listed and described in Lesure, and Thibault, , Bibliographic des éditions d'Adrian Le Roy et Robert Ballard, pp. 81–3Google Scholar.

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91 Brantôme is quoted in Verchaly, A., ‘Desportes et la musique’, Annales Musicologiques, 2 (1954), p. 276Google Scholar.

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95 On the Académie du Palais, see Yates, The French Academies.

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97 The examples in this paragraph have all been taken from the articles on each composer in The New Grove Dictionary.

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