{"product_id":"the-voice-of-virtue-latour-9780197529744","title":"The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Voice of Virtue\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the musical practices at the heart of the Neostoic movement that spread across French lands during the Wars of Religion in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Guided by twin reparative traditions granting music and philosophy therapeutic power, composers and performers across the embattled Catholic and Protestant confessions turned to moral song as a means of repairing personal and collective virtue damaged by the ongoing conflict. Moral song collections enlarged interest in Stoic philosophy by circulating its ethical program to a broader audience through attractive paraphrases of Stoic maxims set to music. Even more importantly, this skillfully composed repertoire of polyphonic song offered a multi-sensory moral practice that would have resonated powerfully for those well-versed in the paradoxes of the Stoic tradition. Bringing together a repertoire of little-known music prints, a rich visual culture, and an impressive body of literary and philosophical sources, \u003cem\u003eThe Voice of Virtue\u003c\/em\u003e not only illuminates the influence of Stoicism on music, but also reveals that we cannot fully understand Neostoicism as an intellectual or cultural movement without accounting for its vibrant musical sounds. Virtue, as voiced in these Stoic practices, proves to be both rational and fully invested in the sensory processes of the singing body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melinda LaTour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197529747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197529744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.43w x 1.13d","brand":"Melinda LaTour","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080814162175,"sku":"9780197529744","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb4f8273-3c36-4dd3-a233-27d38bb42560.jpg?v=1685488981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-voice-of-virtue-latour-9780197529744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}