Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music: Opera and Chamber Music in France and England

by Cyr,Mary

• ISBN13: 9780754659266
• ISBN10: 0754659267
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this collection of essays, Mary Cyr explores some of the written and unwritten performance conventions that applied to French and English music of the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Using composers' own notations, marks added by eighteenth-century performers, historical treatises, and pictorial evidence, she investigates both vocal and instrumental genres, including opera, cantatas, instrumental chamber music, and solo music for the viol and violin.

Table of Contents

Vocal Music in France

Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: a biographical essay

The sacred and secular cantatas of Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: an introduction

Representing Jacquet de La Guerre on disc: scoring and basse continue practices and a new painting of the composer

A new Rameau cantata

Performing Rameau's cantatas

Towards a chronology of Rameau's cantatas

Declamation and expressive singing in recitative

18th-century French and Italian singing: Rameau's writing for the voice

On performing 18th-century haute-contre roles

Basses and basse continue in the orchestra of the Paris Opéra, 1700-1764

The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770

The Paris Opéra chorus during the time of Rameau

'Inclina Domine': a Martin motet wrongly attributed to Rameau

Preface to François Martin, Petits Motets for One and Two Solo Voices with Instruments

Bach's music in France: a new source

The Viol and Violin in England

A 17th-century source of ornamentation for voice and viol

British Museum ms. Egerton 2971

Carl Friedrich Abel's solos: a musical offering to Gainsborough?

Books on old violins and 19th-century playing from the bequest of T.W. Mills

Tempo graduations in Purcell's sonatas

Violin playing in late 17th-century England: Baltzar, Matteis, and Purcell

Ornamentation in English lyra viol music: part 1: slurs, juts, and thumpes and other 'graces' for the bow

Ornamentation in English lyra viol music: part 2: shakes, relishes, falls, and other 'graces' for the left hand

Index

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