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Galant, rené (1914 - 1997) --- Galant, rené (1914 - 1997)

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What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Vise, the founder and editor in chief of 'Le Mercure Galant', one of France's first newspapers, was arguably the first journalist to ask this question and to recognize and capitalize upon the influence of female readers and their social networks. By including 'custom content' and performing the act of listening to women, 'Le Mercure Galant' situates itself as an intermediary, using the "nouvelle" as a vehicle to amplify women's voices. These fictions, presented as true stories, depict incidents and situations that women often bore silently in real life: domestic violence, romantic betrayal, dishonor, or simply loneliness. By publishing these stories alongside its chronicle of historic events, the Mercure lends credence and prestige to depictions of the private life of anonymous individuals, exploiting the ostensibly anodyne genre of 'women's fiction' to disseminate modern ideas about women's agency.

Femmes --- Presse féminine --- Women --- Women's periodicals, French. --- Livres et lecture. --- Books and reading. --- Mercure de France (périodique ; 1890-1965) --- Mercure galant.

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Women's periodicals --- Press --- Presse féminine --- Presse --- History --- Histoire --- Mercure galant --- Presse féminine --- History of journalism --- Feminine press --- France --- 17th-18th centuries --- Mercure de France (1672-1825) --- Journalism --- 17th century --- 18th century --- Women's periodicals [French] --- Women's periodicals, French --- French women's periodicals --- French periodicals --- Mercure galant (Paris, France : 1672) --- Le mercure de france (periodique ; 1672-1832) --- Presse feminine francaise --- 17e siecle --- 18e siecle

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This book is the first-ever study of Malta's major eighteenth-century composer, Benigno Zerafa (1726-1804), a specialist in sacred music composition. Zerafa's large-scale and small-scale vocal and choral works, mostly written during his long service as musical director at the Cathedral of Mdina, have been winning increased recognition in recent years. In addition to describing and analysing this extensive corpus, the book gives an account of Zerafa's sometimes eventful career against the wider background of the rich musical and cultural life in Malta, especial attention being paid to its strong links with Italy, and particularly Naples, where Zerafa was a student for six years. It examines in detail the complex relationship of music to Catholic liturgy and investigates the distinctive characteristics of the musical style, intermediate between baroque and classical, in which Zerafa was trained and always composed: one that today is commonly labelled 'galant'.
Well stocked with music examples, the book makes copious reference to Italian and Maltese composers from Zerafa's time and to modern analytical studies of Italian music from the middle decades of the eighteenth century, thereby offering a useful general commentary on the galant period. Its central aim, however, is to stimulate further interest in, and revival of, Zerafa's music. To this end the book contains a complete work-list with supplementary indexes. Scholars and students of eighteenth-century music, in particular sacred music, the galant style and Italian music, will find it invaluable.

FREDERICK AQUILINA is Senior Lecturer in Music Studies at the University of Malta.

Composers --- Sacred music --- Compositeurs --- Musique religieuse --- Biography --- Biographies --- Zerafa, Benigno, --- Sacred music. --- Religious music --- Worship music --- Music --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Art. --- Baroque music. --- Benigno Zerafa. --- Church music. --- Eighteenth-century musicology. --- Eighteenth-century. --- Galant music. --- Italian studies. --- Maltese music. --- Maltese studies. --- Music analysis. --- Music history. --- Music. --- Musicology. --- Neapolitan music.