Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour, 1575-1651: Six allemandes ; 2: Ballet à Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13 (4 airs) ; 3: Concert à Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets, 1627 ; 4: Ballet des Nations ... ; 5: Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus ... 1651

Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour, 1575-1651: Six allemandes ; 2: Ballet à Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13 (4 airs) ; 3: Concert à Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets, 1627 ; 4: Ballet des Nations ... ; 5: Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus ... 1651
Author: David J. Buch
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780945193333

David Buch's informative volume is the first modern study edition and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour 1575-1651. These full scores are especiall y important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The exception here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600 a Ballet cheval of 1615 a selection of miscellaneous Entres from several ballets prepared for the Concert Louis XIII par les Viollons et lest 12 Grands hautbois of 1627 and Philidor's five-part reading of seventeen Entres from the Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus of 1651.

Ballets pour Louis XIII: Ballets burlesques pour Louis XIII : danse et jeux de transgression (1622-1638)

Ballets pour Louis XIII: Ballets burlesques pour Louis XIII : danse et jeux de transgression (1622-1638)
Author: Marie-Claude Canova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012
Genre: Ballet
ISBN: 9782908728699

De simple divertissement à l’origine, le ballet de cour acquit sous Louis XIII une dimension politique dont la portée outrepasse la pure flatterie du souverain. À des fins de gouvernement la monarchie s’appropria la symbolique de ce genre dramatique encore neuf voué à l’évocation de l’harmonie universelle pour en appliquer les vertus métaphoriques à l’exaltation de sa propre puissance, dans un cadre révélateur de l’organisation hiérarchisée de la société de cour comme des États-nations européens. Le passe-temps originel de la noblesse finit ainsi par se muer en représentation du pouvoir, voire en instrument de propagande misant sur les sens pour imposer l’autorité du monarque sur ses sujets.

Performing Baroque Music

Performing Baroque Music
Author: Mary Cyr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351554646

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for close study. Readers will find new material on continuo playing, as well as extensive treatment of singing and French music. The book is also a concise guide to reference materials in the field of baroque performance practice with extensive annotated bibliographies of modern and baroque sources that guide the reader toward further study. First published by Ashgate (at that time known as Scolar Press) in 1992 and having been out of print for some years, this title is now available as a print on demand title.

Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music

Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-baroque Music
Author: Frederick Neumann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1983-12-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780691027074

Ornaments play an enormous role in the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ambiguities in their notation (as well as their frequent omission in the score) have left doubt as to how composers intended them to be interpreted. Frederick Neumann, himself a violinist and conductor, questions the validity of the rigid principles applied to their performance. In this controversial work, available for the first time in paperback, he argues that strict constraints are inconsistent with the freedom enjoyed by musicians of the period. The author takes an entirely new look at ornamentation, and particularly that of J. S. Bach. He draws on extensive research in England, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States to show that prevailing interpretations are based on inadequate evidence. These restrictive interpretations have been far-reaching in their effect on style. By questioning them, this work continues to stimulate a reorientation in our understandiing of Baroque and post-Baroque music.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300038380

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love

The Eighteenth Century French Cantata

The Eighteenth Century French Cantata
Author: David Tunley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780198164395

This book, first published in 1974, has become the classic study of one of the most popular musical forms in early eighteenth-century France. It not only documents and examines a considerable repertoire for the first time, but it also places the genre in the wider context of both French and Italian baroque musical styles.

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque

Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989-02-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521352635

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall
Author: Patrick Cramer
Publisher: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Total Pages: 357
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781556601446