Music and Monarchy 10/120 by David Starkey


ISBN
9781471348884
Published
Released
01 / 11 / 2013
Binding
Audio-CD

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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