Patricia's Pages on Musical Rhetoric in Volume 1

The pronunciation of French and Latin in seventeenth-century France

How was the vowel sound “OI” pronounced in seventeenth-century France?
(http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/oi_pronunciation.html)

“La musique Françoise”: should it be pronounced like the woman’s name?
(http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/musique_francoise.html)

Scipion Dupleix and the pronunciation of “OI” (1651) (http://ranumspanat.com/dupleix_prononciation.htm)

More on "OI" and how it was pronounced by non-rustics, circa 1680: the abbess of Montmartre pronounced it like an “AI” — that is, “eh” (Factlet dated April 4, 2008) (http://ranumspanat.com/factoids.htm)

An addendum to my book on Jean Le Clerc and the pronunciation of French vulgar Latin (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/latin_addendum.html)

French wind articulations as a mirror of spoken declamation

The French syllables tu and ru: why “veddy” is not a desirable substitute for “ru” (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/tu_and_ru.html)

Some further thoughts about the images of the vowels in French tonguing syllables (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/laurin.html)

Rhetoric in French Song and Instrumental Music

A glossary of “terms of movement” in French baroque music: introduction and table of contents (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/glossary_intro.html); plus the reasons why I compiled the glossary (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/glossary_explain)

The Thésée project of Les Arts Florissants and the festival of Ambronnay (1998): my work as rhetorician (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/thesee_ambronnay.html); plus my analysis of the rhetoric in two of Lully’s songs (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/lully_thesee_songs.html)

Rhetoric and expression in Lully’s French song (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/lagorce_lully.html)

A dot at the beginning of a musical measure: What did it mean for Marc-Antoine Charpentier? (http://ranumspanat.com/dots_MAC.htm)

A dot at the beginning of a musical measure: What was their rhetorical significance for Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre? (http://ranumspanat.com/jacquet_dots.htm)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jesuit rhetoric, the Journal de Trévoux, and the exercise known as “les Tons” (the Tones) (http://ranumspanat.com/trevoux_tons.htm)

Coaching handouts (http://ranumspanat.com/declamation_lessons.htm)

A supplement to the bibliography of my Harmonic Orator (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/biblio_HO.html)

Vespucci: a sixteenth-century precursor of the French rhetoric I describe in my Harmonic Orator (http://ranumspanat.com/html%20pages/vespucci_word_music.html)