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Panat Times

Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014

Contents

Volume 1

Panat

Orest's Pages

Patricia's Musings

Marc-Antoine

Charpentier

Musical Rhetoric

Transcribed Sources


 

"French" cahiers for 1679

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Charpentier's French notebooks for this year show him composing for the Dauphin during the spring months (doubtlessly a promotional "gift" from Mme de Guise to her cousin) for the Mercy in August (surely in order to please Mlle de Guise), and for Charles Le Brun in August (to celebrate the saint's day of Louis XIV).

This year was an anxious one for the two Guise women (and probably for Charpentier as well), because people close to them or to their "people" were being singled out for intense scrutiny by the investigators of the Poison Affair. That may be why Charpentier wrote less for the Guises than one might anticipate. Or was he too busy with music for theatrical works, some of which survive only as instrumental preludes in his Roman notebooks.

(Note: it is possible that the oratorio about the Charles Borromeo and the Plague of Milan, was written for performance in November 1679 rather than February 1680, where I placed it in my charts.)

Cahier 22
H 170 Super flumina Babylonis (ps. 136)
Thursday vespers. "La Superflumina des demoiselles Pieches," written for the Dauphin's musicians
H 25 Antiphona in honorem Beatæ Virginis a redemptione captivorum (mid-August) (an hc sings) "pour les captifs." Matins of the feast of Our Lady of the Mercy (text approved in Rome, March 17, 1679)
H 23a Prelude pour Salve Regina à 3
complins or matins. (Hitchcock proposes that this was for H 23 in cahier 16; Cessac suggests it is for H 24 of cahier 17.)
H 237a Prélude ... pour O bone Jésus...pour la paix
for a reuse of the work written in 1676.
H 242 Elévation: Ecce panis voce sola  (June 1?)
Corpus Christi; salut du Saint Sacrement at Montmartre sung each Thursday
H 243 Elévation: Panis angelicus voce sola
6th strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis
H 323 In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ canticum, for the King's patron saint (August 25)
H 171 Superflumina (ps. 136)  for a large ensemble
Thursday vespers. "Son prélude est au cahyer XXIV," a notebook containing preludes written between late 1677 to early 1679

Cahier 23
H 518 Pour le sacre d'un evesque (June?) for a large ensemble
see 1680, for the feast of St. Charles Borromeo (November 4)