Le Métier du maître de musique d’Église (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles): Activités, sociologie, carrières. Ed.Bernard Dompnier and Jean Duron.

Abstract

Taking the role of maître de musique d’église (church music master) during early modern France as a subject for detailed investigation, this edited collection asks questions that have hitherto remained relatively unexplored in previous scholarly publications. For example, what duties were expected of such a figure, and how did these vary according to the status and geographical location of the ecclesiastical establishment? What can be known about maîtres’ teaching practices and how this relates to their compositional output? What were their professional relationships like, both with their fellow musicians and the non-musical personnel alongside whom they had to work? Finally, what was the typical career path of a maître de musique d’église, and how (if at all) did this change across the early modern period, both in France in other parts of Europe? Developed from a conference organized jointly by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (Paris)...