Choose another year from the "Roman" cahiers
The piece for St Benedict -- doubtlessly commissioned by the new abbess of Montmartre -- provides a clue to just how long it could take nuns to prepare a new motet. During this year of transition from service to the Guises to that of the Jesuits, Charpentier wrote quite a few pieces for the abbey of Port-Royal of Paris, where his sister was a converse nun.
Cahier L, cont. |
H 195 Bonum est
confiteri Domino (ps. 91) (January 20) for the Great Guise
Music Saturday lauds |
H 259 Elévation: Transfige amabilis Jesu |
Cahier LI |
H 346
Pour le St Sacrement au reposoir
(June 5, Corpus Christi) for a large ensemble "Au reposoir" was added later |
H 196 Usquequo Domine
(ps. 12) (June 5) Sunday matins: for the Dauphin's former musicians |
H 347 In honorem
Sancti Benedicti (December 4) vespers of the illation of St Benedict, at Montmartre |
H 5 Messe pour le
Port-Royal (July 20) "Pour Ste Marguerite" |
Cahiers LII and LIII: missing |
Cahier LII may be cahier "d," which contains: |
H 419 Pour St Augustin mourant (August 28) |
H 50 Antienne pour les vespres de l'Assomption de la Vierge (August 15) |
H 51 Pour les mesmes vespres: Antienne (August 15) |
H 52 Antienne pour les mesmes vespres (August 15) |
H 274 Elévation: O sacramentum pietatis |
H 226 Dixit Dominus
pour le Port-Royal
(ps. 109) Indications for male voices were added later |
H 227 Laudate Dominum omnes gentes pour le Port-Royal (ps. 116) |
H 81 Magnificat pour
le P[ort-]R[oyal] For Mlle du Fresnoy, Mere Ste Agathe, Mere de St Bern[ard] |
H 420 Dialogus inter angelos et pastores Judae, In nativitatem Domini (December 25) for a large ensemble |