The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Charpentier's Patrons and Friends
Charpentier’s Guise and Orléans patrons: some Musings that might shed light on them as persons
St. Cecilia and Conversions: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios in honor of St. Cecilia as an expression of the Guises’ mission to convert Protestants, 1676-1686. This Musing also demonstrates that Philippe Goibaut des Bois (“M. Du Bois de l’Hôtel de Guise”) wrote the four Cecilia libretto, and also the Prologue to H.416
St Charles Borromeo, Mme de Guise and the Confrérie de la Charité
Charpentier’s Funeral Music, 1671-1676 (and two related Factlets: Charpentier's funeral music of 1672-1674 and A Factlet on grand deuil )
1675: A Guise child dies, and the Infant Jesus becomes one of Charpentier’s principal subjects
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Petite Pastorale” (H.479), October 5, 1676
The “regular” life of two devout princesses and how it shaped Charpentier’s music
The deaths of Mademoiselle de Guise (1688) and Madame de Guise (1696)
A funeral oration for Mme de Guise
Mlle de Guise and her rank as a princesse fille
The “Guise Music”: some thumbnail sketches of the members of Mlle de Guise’s ensemble, and a related Factlet: "The Great Guise Music," a name I coined for the Guise ensemble of the 1680s
1675: Madame de Toscane comes to reside at Montmartre, and Charpentier begins writing oratorios
Mlle de Guise chooses a painting for her gallery
The Hôtel de Guise, as renovated in 1666-1667
Letters written during Mlle de Guise’s trip to Champagne, 1680
A description of the benediction of Mlle de Guise's sister, the abbesse of Montmartre, 1657
The decoration of Mlle de Guise’s country house at Bercy
The “Battle of the Churchbenches” at Guise, 1680
Mlle de Guise’s correspondence with Florence
Did Mme de Guise commission Charpentier's Epithalamio (H.473)?
Guise activities,1670-1687, that appears to have shaped Charpentier's production; and the Evidence about some of those activities, 1670-1680
Charpentier's non-Guise or non-Orléans patrons or associates
1672: Charpentier's collaboration with Molière, a re-reading of the evidence
1679: M. de Riants Commissions an Opera
Charles Le Brun, who commissioned music by Charpentier (Le Brun may have had village ties to Charpentier's family)
Some related Musings about seventeenth-century culture and possible Charpentier friends
The Frankfurt portrait of Henri Du Mont: was it based on his tomb?
Antoine Ferrand, a musical member of Charpentier’s circle?
The death inventory of François Chapperon, Charpentier’s predecessor at the Sainte-Chapelle, which is accompanied by a Musing on Charpentier at the Sainte-Chapelle, and another on Chapperon's taste