Livre
Paroles de musique (1658-1694)
catalogue des "Livres d'airs de différents auteurs" publiés chez Ballard
Référence : CMBV-A004
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Références
Maison d'édition :
Editions Mardaga
Présentation :
This catalogue is a critical edition of the texts of the 1220 airs published by Robert and Christophe Ballard in their 37 Livres d'airs de différents auteurs between 1658 and 1694.
Far from being a minor form of entertainment, reserved for a few Parisian literary circles, the writing of lyrics for serious airs and setting them to music enthralled the greatest writers and composers of the realm in the 17th century: the poets Corneille, Boileau, Molière and La Fontaine feature alongside composers Lully, Lambert, Charpentier and Le Camus.
A systematic comparison of the Ballard anthology with other sources from the period where the texts, or even the music, may have reappeared – Mercure galant, poetry or music collections, novels, short stories, plays, opera librettos, treatises on conversation etc – demonstrates the omnipresence of galante lyric poetry in the literary world of Louis XIV’s France. Research on these airs, generally printed without the name of the poet or composer, in a corpus of some 350 secondary sources, has enabled us to attribute them to 81 different poets and 39 different composers.
The present work is accompanied by various tables that allow research into authors and composers, performers, publishers, printers or booksellers, poetic incipits, musical incipits and the vocal range required for performance.
This corpus of serious airs should be of interest to musicologists, literary historians and specialists in the history of seventeenth-century performance, as well as to performers of French Baroque music.
Anne-Madeleine Goulet is a researcher at the CNRS and works at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. She is the author of Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIe siècle. Les "Livres d'airs de différents auteurs" published by Ballard from 1658 to 1694 (Honoré Champion, 2004).
Since 2017, the complete Livres d'airs de différents auteurs have been published by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and made available to musicians for download: http://philidor.cmbv.fr/ark:/13681/t75srpb2u5
Far from being a minor form of entertainment, reserved for a few Parisian literary circles, the writing of lyrics for serious airs and setting them to music enthralled the greatest writers and composers of the realm in the 17th century: the poets Corneille, Boileau, Molière and La Fontaine feature alongside composers Lully, Lambert, Charpentier and Le Camus.
A systematic comparison of the Ballard anthology with other sources from the period where the texts, or even the music, may have reappeared – Mercure galant, poetry or music collections, novels, short stories, plays, opera librettos, treatises on conversation etc – demonstrates the omnipresence of galante lyric poetry in the literary world of Louis XIV’s France. Research on these airs, generally printed without the name of the poet or composer, in a corpus of some 350 secondary sources, has enabled us to attribute them to 81 different poets and 39 different composers.
The present work is accompanied by various tables that allow research into authors and composers, performers, publishers, printers or booksellers, poetic incipits, musical incipits and the vocal range required for performance.
This corpus of serious airs should be of interest to musicologists, literary historians and specialists in the history of seventeenth-century performance, as well as to performers of French Baroque music.
Anne-Madeleine Goulet is a researcher at the CNRS and works at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. She is the author of Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIe siècle. Les "Livres d'airs de différents auteurs" published by Ballard from 1658 to 1694 (Honoré Champion, 2004).
Since 2017, the complete Livres d'airs de différents auteurs have been published by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and made available to musicians for download: http://philidor.cmbv.fr/ark:/13681/t75srpb2u5
Pagination :
1088
Date de parution :
2007-01
Introduction (langue) :
French
ISBN 978-2-87009-946-9
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