The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
"French" cahiers for 1678
Choose another year from the "French" cahiers
There is not a great deal to say about relationships between the Guise activities for this year and the works in cahiers 20 and 21. It is, of course, clear that Mme de Guise was being very supportive of her cousin Louis XIV's military efforts. We also see that she and Mlle de Guise were doing a lot of entertaining (chiefly for Mme de Toscane), but these activities do not show up in Charpentier's notebooks. (If he wrote for these events, he clearly copied the pieces into one of the booklets mentioned in the Mémoire of 1727, since lost.) Nor can we link any of the preludes in the Roman notebooks (1677-1670) to the different sacres or installations of abbesses which Their Highnesses attended in 1678. In sum, it does not seem that Charpentier composed all that much for his protrectresses in 1678, and I can't begin to say why ! (Note also that, M. Du Bois having regained his health and being once again in charge of the ensemble, the "hc" disappears from the notebooks.
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Cahier 20 |
| H 240 O sacrum pour trois religieuses (June 9?) |
| H 168
Psalmus in tempore belli pro rege
(ps. 5) (Spring), for a large ensemble Sunday matins. "Son prélude est au cahyer XXIII," which suggests a reuse in 1679. |
| H 60 Hymne pour toutes
les festes de la Vierge: Ave
maris stella vespers, vespers of the Virgin. |
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Cahier 21 |
| H 14 Prose du Saint
Sacrement: Lauda Sion salvatorem (June 9) Corpus Christi |
| H 241 Elevatio: Venite fideles (June 9?) |
| H 169 In convertendo
Dominus (ps. 125), for a large ensemble Tuesday vespers, little office of the Virgin, Wednesdays in Lent, feasts of the apostles |