The
Ranums'
Panat Times
Volume 1, redone Dec. 2014
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Rhetorician
This is a subject with which I am just beginning to come to grips. I plan to look at word-music relationships in selected pieces, along the lines of the pages below:
Rhetoric woven into Charpentier's compositions
A dot at the beginning of a musical measure: What did it mean for Marc-Antoine Charpentier? which opens comparisons with Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre's use of such dots.
Two Musings about a group of oratorios written for Mme de Guise in
the late 1670s discuss Charpentier's rhetoric:
1)
Judith, Femme forte and Marian figure: A look at how the
Vulgate text was redacted into a libretto for a Guise “devotion,” 1675
and
2)
St. Cecilia and Conversions: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorios in
honor of St. Cecilia as expression of the Guises’ mission to convert
Protestants, 1676-1686
"Overture" and "Opening": Marc-Antoine Charpentier and "Ouvertures"