The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 499
n be supposed that he cared little for music, as he was veryaverse to his wife, Margaret of Scotland, composing or listening to theballads and roundelays of which she was so fond. But the King, who pre-ferred risky stories to these love ballads, was very particidar that his chapelmusic, on which… … MUSIC. 431 most for military music, altliough, with its overwhelming clatter of big Swissdrmns, it was the least melodious of all. Francis I. was too fond of poetry not to like music ; and his predecessor,Louis XII., had left him a choir which had no ecpial in the world, and whichwas under the…
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