New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine CharpentierShirley Thompson The tercentenary of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's death in 2004 stimulated a surge of activity on the part of performers and scholars, confirming the modern assessment of Charpentier (1643-1704) as one of the most important and inventive composers of the French Baroque. The present book illustrates not only the sheer variety of research strands currently pursued, but also the way in which these strands frequently intertwine and generate the potential for future research. Between them, they examine facets of the composer's compositional language and process, aspects of his performance practice and notation, the contexts within which he worked, and the nature of his legacy. The appendix contains a transcription of the inventory of Charpentier's manuscripts prepared when their sale to the Royal Library was negotiated in 1726 - an invaluable research tool, as numerous chapters in the book demonstrate. The wide variety of topics covered here will appeal both to readers interested in Charpentier's music and to those with a broader interest in the music and culture of the French Baroque, including aspects of patronage, church and theatre. Far from treating his output in isolation, this book places it in the wider context alongside such composers as Lully, Lalande, Marais, François Couperin and Rameau; it also views the composer in relation to his Italian training. In the process, the under-examined question of influence - who influenced Charpentier? whom did he influence? - repeatedly comes to the fore. |
Contents
The Italian Background | 43 |
An Emblem Expanded | 63 |
Sensual Imagery | 89 |
Charpentiers Messe pour plusieurs | 105 |
The Singers and Instrumentalists of | 133 |
Performance Practices at the Théâtre de Guénégaud and | 161 |
Added Preludes | 185 |
Dominus H169 Mélanges vol 3 p 152 cahier 21 fol 80 | 191 |
Charpentiers | 207 |
Reflections on Charpentiers Les plaisirs | 269 |
A Nephews Tribute | 287 |
1a Charpentier Ave regina H22 Mélanges vol 2 p 183 | 292 |
Mémoire des ouvrages de musique latine et françoise | 315 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index of Works by Charpentier Cited | 363 |
instrumentis H190 Mélanges vol 6 p 43 cahier 39 fol 23 | 202 |
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accessed January 2009 annotations Antoine Armide autre Ave regina Baroque basse continue basse de violon Cæcilia virgo Canticum Catherine Cessac chaconne chapel Charpentier's chœurs chorus Circé composer composer's continuo copied croches blanches cromorne deux domine salvum ensemble example F-Pn facs flutes fontaines françois French genre Gosine grand motet gros cahier Guise Music haute-contre Italian Jean Jean-Baptiste Lully Jesuit Lalande Lalande's Laudate Le malade imaginaire Leçon Louis Lully Lully's Magnificat manuscripts Marc-Antoine Charpentier Médée Médée et Jason Mélanges autographes melêz de symphonie Mémoire Mercure galant Meslanges Messe Michel-Richard Michel-Richard Delalande Miserere Motets melêz musicians opera organ original Panis angelicus Paris passacaille passage Patricia performance pieces Pierre plaisirs Portraits around Marc-Antoine premier Psal Psalmus Rameau Ranum ritournelles royal score seventeenth-century simphonie singers solo soloists suggests suitte taille tetrachord Thésée tragédie en musique trio Versailles vierge viol violons voices void notation Wiley Hitchcock