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Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Patricia M. Ranum's Research and Writing
Publications on word-music relationships
1982 — "Le phrasé des danses baroques selon les paroles," presented at the First International Colloquium on Old Dance, Besançon, organized by Philippe Beaussant (later named artistic director of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles)
1985 — "Les ‘caractères' des danses françaises," Recherches sur la Musique française classique, 23 (1985), pp. 45-70
1986 — "Audible rhetoric and mute rhetoric: the 17th-century French sarabande," Early Music, 14 (1986), pp. 22-40
1988 — "Y a-t-il une rhétorique des airs de danse français?," acts of the colloquium on rhetoric held at Pommersfelden in 1988, in V. Kapp, ed., Die Sprache der Zeichen und Bilder, Rhetorik und nonverbale Kommunikation in der frühen Neuzeit, Ars Rhetorica, no. 1, Marburg: Hitzeroth, 1990, pp. 238-254
1991 — Méthode de la prononciation latine dite vulgaire ou à la française, petite méthode à l'usage des chanteurs et des récitants d'après le manuscrit de Dom Jacques Le Clerc (Arles: Actes Sud, 1991), with a preface by William Christie
1992 — "Do French Dance Songs Obey the Rules of Rhetoric?," in David Lasocki, ed., Fluting and Dancing, (New York: McGinnis & Marx,1992), pp. 104-130. (An adaptation for English-speaking readers of the 1988 French article, at the request of Betty Bang Mather, for her festschrift)
1992 — "A Fresh Look at French Wind Articulations," American Recorder, 33 (1992), pp. 9-17. (Described by the journal as "a completely new approach to the application of French tonguing syllables and a revisiting of notes inégales," this article caused quite a stir because it does not fit the notion of tonguings that twentieth-century historians of performance practices deduced on the basis of instrumental treatises. I replied to their protests in the March and June issues of 1993.)
1993 — "L'hémiole chantée, Quelques réflexions sur les ‘réflexions' de Herbert Schneider," Revue de musicologie, 79 (1993), pp. 227-262
1994 — "Le chant doit perfectioner la prononciation: l'accentuation du chant grégorien chez Dom Le Clerc et G-G. Nivers," presented at conference on French Baroque Plainsong under auspices of the Centre de Music Baroque de Versailles, in J. Duron, ed., Plain-Chant et liturgie en France au XVIIe siècle, (Paris: Klincksieck, 1997), pp. 59-83
1997 — The Harmonic Orator, a method for deducing the rhetoric in French airs (including instrumental airs) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2001
1998 — "French Articulations: a Mirror of French Song," Traverso, vol. 9, no. 3, July 1997, pp. 1-2
2001 — "French Articulation: The Lessons of Thésée," American Recorder, 42 (2001), pp. 6-13
Person-to-person activities involving word-music relationships
1983 — Three lectures on rhetoric to the singers and instrumentalists of the Arts Florissants
1984 — Participated for 3 weeks in rehearsals for the Arts Florissants' recording of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée; coached the original "Jason" (who had to withdraw at the last minute) and "Médée," both of whom are English-speaking and did not know the rudiments of French poetry. (This was a pivotal experience, for it showed me that musicians must have an understanding of how poetry functions in song.)
1988 on — Coaching singers in Washington D.C. area on French and Latin declamation; coaching vocal and instrumental students at the Peabody Conservatory of Baltimore; coaching a recording artist in Paris about the words that can be imagined beneath the notes of the French pieces he was preparing
1990 — Course in pronunciation of French latin for the pages at the choir school run by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
1995 — Invited to give a lecture at the symposium on singing being planned for Utrecht, September, as preparation for William Christie's master class. The symposium was subsequently cancelled although the project has not been abandoned
1996-98 — Coached the Opera class at the Peabody Conservatory on French rhetoric during rehearsals for French Baroque operas they were preparing
1998 — Was the "rhetorician" for the re-creation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thésée, sponsored by the European Baroque Academy of the Festival of Ambronay, France, and directed by William Christie/The Arts Florissants
2000 -2003— Rhetoric and declamation coach for "The Violins of Lafayette," directed by Ryan Brown.
January 2002 — Invited by Oberlin Conservatory to coach singers about French rhetoric for Pancrace Royer's Le Pouvoir de l'Amour
February 2005 — Lecture on French word-music relation for French Baroque Music class at Oberlin Conservatory
April 2005 — Lecturer and declamation coach at all-day seminar at Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, on "French Opera: Sensuality, Sentiment, and Spectacle," in cooperation with Opera Lafayette.
December 2005 and January 2006 — Coach for Latin pronunciation and French declamation at the Peabody Conservatory, for Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Messe de Minuit and Actéon.
October 2006 — Masterclass at University of Maryland, College Park, in François Loup's French diction class, in preparation for performances of Lully's and Gluck's Armides, being prepared in cooperation with Opera Lafayette.
Publications on French musical culture in the late seventeenth century
NOTE: All the articles listed below that first appeared in the Bullein Charpentier have been reprinted in Marc-Antoine Charpentier, un musicien retrouvé. texts assembled by Catherine Cessac for the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (Mardaga: Sprimont, 2005).
1984 — "Mademoiselle de Guise, ou les défis de la quenouille," XVIIe Siècle, 37 (1984), pp. 221-231
1986 — "Le Musicien tailleur: Etienne Loulié et la musique des Anciens," in D'un Siècle à l'autre: Anciens et Modernes, acts of 16th colloquium of the C.M.R. 17, Jan. 1986), Marseilles, pp. 239-258
1987 — "A sweet servitude, A musician's life at the court of Mlle de Guise," Early Music, 15 (1987), pp. 347-360
1987 — "Etienne Loulié (1654-1702), musicien de Mademoiselle de Guise, pédagogue et théoricien," Recherches sur la Musique française classique, 23 (1987), pp. 27-76, and 24 (1988-1990), pp. 5-49
1988 — "Marc-Antoine Charpentier et la ‘Feste de Ruel'," XVIIe Siècle, 40 (1988), pp. 393-400
1990 — "1662: Marc-Antoine Charpentier et les siens," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jan. 1990, pp. 2-15
1991 — "Etienne Loulié: Recorder Player, Teacher, Musicologist," American Recorder, 32 (1991), pp. 6-11
1991 —"Un portrait présumé de Marc-Antoine Charpentier," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jan. 1991, pp. 3-11
1992 — contributor to Dictionnaire de la musique en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, directed by Marcelle Benoit (Paris: Fayard, 1992): articles on the Guise circle, on Latin pronunciation and on the phrasing of French song
1992 — "Titon du Tillet: le premier ‘biographe' de Marc-Antoine Charpentier," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jan. 1992, pp. 9-19
1993 — "Meslanges, Mélanges, Cabinet, Recueil, Ouvrages: L'entrée des manuscrits de Marc-Antoine Charpentier à la Bibliothèque du Roi," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, July 1993, pp. 2-9
1993 — "Quelques Ajouts au Corpus Charpentier," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, July 1993, pp. 10-13
1994 — Vers une chronologie des œuvres de Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Les papiers employés par le compositeur: un outil pour l'étude de sa production et de sa vie (Baltimore, 1994) ISBN: 0-9660997-0-2. Available from the author, 208 Ridgewood Road, Baltimore, MD 21210
1994 — "Le mécénat musical de Mademoiselle de Guise (1670-1688)," in Yvonne Bellenger, ed., Le Mécénat et l'influence des Guises, Actes du Colloque organisé sur la Littérature de la Renaissance de l'Université de Reims et tenu à Joinville du 31 mai au 4 juin 1994 (Paris: Champion, 1997), pp. 613-638
1995 — "A la recherche de son avenir: Sébastien de Brossard à Paris, 1678 à 1687," presented at the conference on Brossard sponsored by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles during the "Journées Brossard" at Versailles, June 1995, published in Sébastien de Brossard, Musicien, ed. Jean Duron (Paris: Klincksieck, 1998), pp. 283-306
1995 — "Un foyer d'italianisme chez les Guises: quelques réflexions sur les oratorios de Charpentier," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jan. 1995, pp. 2-15
1995 — Invited to contribute to the New Grove but my contract for an edition of ms. U336 forced me to decline
1996 — "‘Il y a aujourd'hui Musique à la Mercy,' Mademoiselle de Guise et les Mercédaires de la rue du Chaume," Bulletin de la Société Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1996, pp.1-11
1997 — editor of Jean Le Boindre, Journal de la Fronde, le manuscrit U336 des Archives Nationales (Paris: Champion, 1997)
1997 — "Lully Plays Deaf: Rereading the Evidence on his privilege," in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., Lully Studies, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 15-31
1998 — "À la Recherche de son avenir: Sébastien de Brossard à Paris, 1678-1687," in Sébastien de Brossard, musicien, Acts of the conference of Royaumont on Brossard organized by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, ed. Jean Duron, Paris: Klincksieck, 1998, pp. 283-306
1998 — "Jean-Baptiste Colbert: un protecteur de Marc-Antoine Charpentier?" Bulletin Charpentier, no. 14, 1997 (appeared in late1998), pp. 22-23
1998 — With Catherine Cessac: " 'Trois favoris d'ut ré mi fa sol la' : août 1672, les Comédiens français taquinent leurs confrères italiens," Bulletin Charpentier, no. 15, 1998, pp. 12-21
2001 — " 'Feindre les poutres pour faire simmetrie aux vrayes', La rénovation de l'hotel de Guise, 1666-1667," Histoire et Archives, no. 10, pp. 5-60, (the journal of the Société des amis des archives de France, available from Librairie Honoré Champion, 7 quai Malaquais, Paris 6e, www.honorechampion.com
2001 — "Marc-Antoine Charpentier compositeur pour les Jésuites, 1687-1698: quelques considérations programmatiques," Bulletin Charpentier, no. 18, 2001, pp. 1-11
2004 — Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a self-published book about the composer's world, is available from Patricia Ranum. Send an e-mail.
2005 — All her articles from the Bulletin Charpentier have been reprinted in Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Un Musicien retrouvé, Liege: Mardaga, 2005, editions of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
2006 — "Marc-Antoine Charpentier och damerna de Guise," Tidig Musik, number 3, 2006 (a Swedish early-music magazine), pp. 6-9
Scholarly translations or editions
— Translations of half the articles in the annual Selections from the Annales E.S.C., published by the Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
— Philippe Aries, Western Attitudes towards Death, the Johns Hopkins Press
— Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization, the Johns Hopkins Press
— Alain Besançon, Short Treatise on Sovietology, published by a big New York press whose name I'm not bothering to look up
— Jacques Le Goff, Your Money or Your Life, New York: Zone Press
— Charles Le Maistre, Voyage en Allemagne, Hongrie et Italie, 1664-1665, Paris: L'Insulaire, 2002.