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Les Airs spirituels de Mr de Bacilly (1672, 1677, and 1688)23Close Les Airs spirituels de Mr de Bacilly (1672, 1677, and 1688)23Close
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The Texts and Music The Texts and Music
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Women and Rigorist Spirituality Women and Rigorist Spirituality
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Rhetoric and the Passions Rhetoric and the Passions
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Sacred Works: An Appeal to the Senses Sacred Works: An Appeal to the Senses
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Sacred Songs as Pedagogical Tools Sacred Songs as Pedagogical Tools
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Conclusion: Jansenism and Rigorist Spirituality at the End of the Century Conclusion: Jansenism and Rigorist Spirituality at the End of the Century
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5 Bertrand de Bacilly’s Airs spirituels and Seventeenth-Century Rigorism
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Published:February 2025
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Abstract
Chapter 5 is an analysis of Bertrand de Bacilly’s Les Airs spirituels, which are not contrafacta but newly written melodies, many set to lyrics by Jacques Testu and Bacilly. Both Testu and Bacilly were connected to Jansenists and a group of noblewomen known as rigorist penitents who aligned themselves with Jansenist theology. Jansenist concepts, phrases, and words appear throughout Bacilly’s lyrics. Addressed are (1) Bacilly’s connection to Testu and the rigorist pentitents; (2) the ways that Bacilly’s vocal preludes and airs provide an alternative to secular songs that express a “false rhetoric” that contaminates reason and obscures truth; and (3) the appropriate appeal to the senses through expressions of sacred maxims. An analysis reveals that despite the harsh lyrics, the airs were written to appeal to female courtiers and young girls by enveloping the rigorist meaning of the lyrics in an appealing and familiar literary and musical style.
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