[ebooktalk] Music and the Monarchy
- From: "June Horne" <june.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 11:26:22 +0100
Thought some of you might be interested in this new audio book to complement
a forthcoming tv series with david Starkey. Copied from Audible website.
June
Tying-in with a four-part BBC TV series presented by David Starkey, this
audiobook offers a new history of Britain through music, showing how the
Royal Court shaped the musical landscape of Britain.
Many of our current musical symbols of nationhood - from the Last Night of
the Proms to football terraces erupting in song - have their origins in the
way the Crown deliberately shaped the national soundtrack.
This is a story of song and power, exploring how Henry VIII subverted the
Reformation he started by protecting a sacred choral tradition he loved; how
Henry Purcell's music was designed to help make Charles II more palatable to
his subjects; how opera in Georgian London is a story of political
infighting between the King and his son; and how the coronation of Elizabeth
II, and the music of Vaughan Williams, represented the last dramatic moment
of church and state coming together in all its grandeur.
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