Musical Practices among Marian Sodalities in the Gallo- and Flandro-Belgic Provinces (16th-18th centuries)

International audience ; This paper sets forth an initial synthesis of the musical practices of the Marian sodali-ties established in the two former Belgian provinces. The musical history of the Bel-gian sodalities has been compiled on the basis of disparate and heterogeneous archival sources, which shed light on the musical practices of the Marian sodalities in two ways. First, they reveal the financial, human, and material resources brought together by the sodalities, as well as the close links maintained by the sodalities with the various local musical bodies. Secondly, the documents indica... Mehr ...