Honnêtes Gens as Musicians: The Amateur Experience in Seventeenth-Century Paris
This dissertation examines the musical practices and experiences of honnêtes gens, a large and influential community of amateur musicians active in seventeenth-century Paris. I first undertake a complete review of the dozens of treatises that make up the honnêteté discourse to position music within the constellation of pursuits deemed essential or worthy of honnêtes gens. I show that French theorists praised music above all for its social utility, for they understood it to be an ingratiating practice beneficial to ambitious men and women drawn to the newly centralized court in Paris. I then reconstruct the social choreography underpinning musical performances by honnêtes gens, which allows for a clearer understanding of music as an agent in the construction of performed...
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