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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Kate van Orden. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 322. $40.00.

As a musically challenged French historian, it was with trepidation that I approached this book. An initial flip through it confirmed my fears. There were pages of musical notation, some reproductions of sixteenth and seventeenth-century originals. And the text could be equally daunting. For example, one finds the following comparison of two pieces of music by the composers Janequin and Le Jeune: "Janequin employs large infusions of musique concrète, extreme rhythmic values, shifting meters, and textures ranging from imitative polyphony and polyphonic cacaphony to homophony. Le Jeune works within a musical language unfailingly committed to homophony and a vocabulary of minims and semiminims keyed to the stressed ("long") and unstressed ("short") syllables of his text ... There is no Phyrigian here, just seven B-naturals in one section of a massive piece otherwise entirely in F, with its standard B-flat" (p. 32). Fortunately, the book's technical sections (which will surely be of great interest to historical musicologists) are fairly self-contained. The uninitiated can skip them without losing the thread of the book's main argument. And a very significant argument it is.

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