COURSE INFORMATION
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This year’s festival will focus on the music of the French baroque, truly beautiful music that belies the politics and intrigue that infused its creation and function. Come and discover the world of Louis XIV, where the magnificence of court life at Versailles could be a blessing or a curse, where music and dance could make or break the status of a courtier, and where composers such as Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Francois Couperin happily provided the Sun King with the elegant and politically charged music that defined his reign. Classes will feature historically informed live performances and recordings of the music, videos depicting idiomatic French court dances, introductory discussion of the forms and features of French baroque music and the music of the festival, and of course, examination of the vibrant historical context in which it all took place.
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