Idéologie et esthétique du sublime dans la musique religieuse en Angleterre au xviii^e siècle

Attempts in eighteenth-century England to confine religious music to the category of the sublime had two different and consecutive effects : first, the paradoxical definition of a sublime of interiority, then the caricatural reduction of sacred music to a quest for emphasis and excess which announced a change in aesthetics and the advent of Romanticism.