Musique Française baroque à la Nouvelle-Orléans
Collection of spiritual airs of the Ursulines (1736)
Alfred E. Lemmon, director of the Historic New Orléans Collection, offers here a luxurious facsimile of the Ursuline Manuscript: the oldest witness to the musical repertoire of the French brotherhoods in New America.
This colour edition of the manuscript is augmented by five articles to contextualise the document: Introduction by Jean Duron, Music in Colonial Louisiana by Alfred E. Lemmon, Louisiana Baroque: bibliographical details of "Nouvelles poésies" by Mark McKnight, From secular to sacred poetry: the textual trajectory of "Nouvelles poésies" by Jennifer Gibson, and Performance practice: crafting a historically informed interpretation of "Nouvelles poésies" by Andrew Justice.
This book is intended above all for musicians who are readers of a beautiful, clean manuscript. They will find here a treasury of vocal works: lightly scored spiritual parodies by talented French composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Brossard, Campra, Charpentier, Clérambault, Couperin, Desmarest, Lully, Marais, Rebel... Download the index of composers.
The articles will give you all you need to know to use this repertoire in programmes, whether or not you are familiar with French music. It is also a precious testimony for historians of musical practices in New Orleans and for literary scholars of poetic sacred repertoire born of the Counter-Reformation, practised in France for the catechism, and here exported to the new continent.
This book brings together texts by Jean Duron, Jennifer Gipson, Andrew Justice, Alfred E. Lemmon, and Mark McKnight.