The composers of the Court of Louis XIV
in the intimacy of their tunes. In the 17th and 18th centuries, vocal music occupied a predominant place in the musical landscape. Through its rhetorical and expressive qualities, the voice was the model for music, and the literary text was the support for the development of musical language. Instruments would only definitively free themselves from this hierarchy much later. A secular genre emblematic of the entire French 17th century, the court air, combining poetry and music, illustrates the growing refinement of salons and high society.
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Philharmonie
1 Place de l'Europe
Luxembourg
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