The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
The "Roman" cahiers for 1677 to 1680
two cahiers
of preludes
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For several years Charpentier made it a practice to copy all preludes into one notebook, irrespective of whether the work itself was in a French or a Roman notebook. The order of the works within these notebooks leave no doubt that, when he subsequently began numbering his two sets of notebooks, he inverted the chronological order of two notebooks, calling the notebook for 1677-1678 "XXIV" and the notebook for 1679-1680 "XXIII" : hence the inversion of the notebooks in the table below. Thanks to the existence of these two notebooks, we can map out his commissions for the period 1677-1680, even though some of the works themselves were subsequently lost. We can also see that Charpentier did not hesitate to re-use a prelude for another patron. (By contrast, he seems to have been very scrupulous about not doing doing that for the works proper.)
|
Cahier XXIV |
| H 540 Ouverture pour quelque belle entreprise |
| H 541 Menuets (Feb 8?) |
| H 520 Prélude and danses (Feb 8?) |
| H 542 Caprice pour trois violons |
|
Cahier XXIV |
| H 499 Ouverture du
prologue d'Acis et de Galathée
(for the opera commission by Armand-Jean de
Riants) (February 1678) (The title was modified in October 1679 to read: "Ouverture du prologue de l'Inconnu.") |
| Fanfare for two trumpets (March?) |
| H 145a Prélude pour le
Te Deum à 8 (March
1678?) "Coppié dans le cahyer où est le Tedeum," that is, cahier X of 1672. (H 145 therefore was reused in 1678.) |
| H 521 Prélude pour
l'Exaudiat non encore esprouvé (The title was later changed to read: "Prélude pour ce qu'on voudra, non encore employé." The Exaudiat of cahier XI was therefore going to be reused in 1678, but the new prelude was not performed.) |
|
Cahier XXIV |
| H 171a Prélude pour
Super flumina (1679) (For the psalm in cahier 22 that he had just written for the Pièche sisters, musicians for the Dauphin.) |
| H 522 Offerte non encore exécutée |
|
Cahier XXIII |
| H 497 Sérénade pour le Sicilien (June 9, 1679) |
| H 498 Ouverture du Dépit amoureux (July 11, 1679) (The title was changed to read: "Ouverture du prologue de Polieucte pour le Collège d'Harcourt," where Corneille's Polyeucte was performed in 1680.) |
| H 399a Prélude pour
l'Enfant prodigue (1680) Filius prodigus is in cahier 29 of 1680. |
| H 168a Prélude pour
Quam fremuerunt gentes à 8 voix (For a reuse of the music "for war" and "for the king's arms" of cahier 20, written in 1678.) |
| H 398a Prélude pour
Horrenda pestis (Nov.4, 1679 or Feb. 28, 1680) (For the oratorio about the Plague of Milan of cahiers 23 and 24.) |
| H 404a Prélude pour
Josué (Crossed out and redone in 1682 for a work in cahier 34.) |
| H 519 Symphonies pour
le Jugement de Salomon (Apparently for a lost work about Solomon. Did he work for the confraternity at Palais as early as the 1680s?) |