The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652

by Melinda LaTour

The Voice of Virtue illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and philosophy therapeutic power, composers and performers across the embattled Catholic and Protestant confessions turned to moral song as a means of repairing personal and collective virtue damaged by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197529747
• ISBN13: 9780197529744
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"