Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bane, Michael A.
• Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi
• Decker, John R.

Titel

To Compliment a Musical Friend: Amateur Musicians and Their Audiences in France, ca. 1650–1700

Ist Teil von

• Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period, 2022, Vol.109, p.30-53

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The goal of this chapter is to identify and describe the behavior expected of well-born performers and auditors of amateur music in France at the end of the seventeenth century, when a number of authors addressed the topic in civility manuals, novels, and other records of social manners. The chapter is divided into three sections, each dedicated to a different moment: before, during, and immediately after the recital. In each case, this chapter will establish as finely as the sources allow the actions demanded of each participant by convention and propriety. Audiences performed their most intricate ceremony following the recital’s conclusion, at which point listeners were expected to offer an assessment. Most early-modern writers identified praise as the only acceptable commentary, and audience members agonized over delivering elegant and gracious compliments—especially to performances of middling quality. By bringing to the fore the consequential but often overlooked concerns of nonprofessional musicians and their audiences, this chapter will help to better situate music-making and listening within the everyday lives of early-modern people.