New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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Contents: Foreword, H. Wiley Hitchcock
Preface
Charting Charpentier's 'worlds' through his Melanges, Patricia M. Ranum
Charpentier's void notation: the Italian background and its implications, Graham Sadler
The descending minor tetrachord in France: an emblem expanded, Lois Rosow
Repentance, piety and praise: sensual imagery and musical depiction in the petits motets of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, C. Jane Gosine
A question of genre: Charpentier's Messe pour Plusieurs Instruments au lieu des Orgues (H513), David Ponsford
Charpentier's music at court: the singers and instrumentalists of the Chapelle Royale, 1663-1683 and beyond, Anthea Smith
Performance practices at the TheActre de Guenegaud and the Comedie-FranAaise: evidence from Charpentier's Melanges autographes, John S. Powell
Une source peut en cacher une autre': added preludes and instrumental cues in the Melanges, Catherine Cessac
The historical implications of a distinctive scoring: Charpentier's 6-voice motets for Mademoiselle de Guise, Theodora Psychoyou
Observations on Charpentier's compositional process: corrections in the Melanges, Herbert Schneider
Medee within the repertory of the tragedie en musique: intertextual links and the 'posterity' of Charpentier's opera, Benjamin Pintiaux
The nature of fame: reflections on Charpentier's Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande's Les Fontaines de Versailles, Peter Roennfeldt
Charpentier's Motets melAz de Symphonie: a nephew's tribute, Shirley Thompson
Appendix
Bibliography
Indexes.

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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 provides a snapshot of Charpentier scholarship in the early years of the new century. Its 13 chapters illustrate not only the sheer variety of 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, FranÃ§ois 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. The book's Foreword was written by H. Wiley Hitchcock shortly before he died. Hitchcock's own part in raising the profile of Charpentier and his music to the level of recognition which it now enjoys cannot be emphasized enough. Appropriately the volume is dedicated to his memory.

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