Oates for Tanger
Mon, 2 Jun 2008
The Loire Chansonniers
I recently published indexes to the online facsimiles of the Laborde
and Mellon chansonniers.
Discussion at the early flute group
and rec.music.early led me to facsimiles
of two more of the Loire Chansonniers,
the Copenhagen and Wolfenbüttel. Indexes to these last two chansonniers are now available
here for the Copenhagen and
here for the Wolfenbüttel.
Posted at 22:12 #
Neuhaus fingering chart I have published a web and text version of the main Neuhaus traverso fingering chart at http://www.cowderoy.net/neuhaus/ The main aim was to build a version useable on mobile phones or pdas so it's an extremely basic chart designed to fit on very small screens.
Nevertheless this means that it is possible now to have a version of the primary reference chart for traverso fingerings available on small mobile devices.
The book from which it is drawn is copyright Ardal Powell and this version is published with his permission for which I am most gratefull. The site offers three versions of the chart;
More details about the chart, how to use it and the differences with the book version will be found on the site.
Posted at 21:32 #
Gentlemen prefer Brunetes When I published a facsimile of volume three of Ballards
Brunetes ou petits airs tendre the first question several people asked was "Are you going to do volumes I and II?"
to which I replied that they were unfortunately more or less unobtainable. They were published in 1703 & 1704 and
are much, much rarer than the third volume published in 1711. Well to my considerable delight and contrary to all expectations I have managed to find copies Taken as a whole these three volumes are an extremely important collection of late 17th and early eighteenth
popular french song and I will be publishing facsimile copies of the entire collection hopefully by this autumn. As many people noticed the quality of the scans of volume three
that I have already published leave something to be desired. Happily I now have access to equipment
that should enable me to produce high definition images. I plan to take this opportunity and re-photograph
the third volume as well. So I hope soon to be able to publish a full high definition facsimile of all three volumes of Ballards Brunetes!
Posted at 21:05 #
An index for the Laborde Chansonnier
The Laborde chansonnier is one of the finest french song collection manuscripts to have survived.
The publication by Octavo / rarebookroom.org
of a full digital version
represents a wonderfull resource for those interested in the work and the songs it contains. As the site
stands though it offers no information as to what songs are contained in the collection
nor any way of accessing them by title or composer.
That is the aim of this index.
Posted at 22:35 #
Poetry and Police in Eighteenth Century Paris, Robert Darnton
Fascinating article on the mechanisms of diffusion of popular verse in eighteenth century france.
You can listen to the lecture
as well (scroll down to "Robert Darnton") or read it here.
Posted at 22:09 #
Bibliography
I've added a bibliography to the brunetes site to try and keep track of publications on the subject.
Posted at 21:10 #
Doulx Regardiens rejoice
New version of the site. Thankyou webmake.
Posted at 21:34 #
Je t'aime, Je t'aime
Ca doit bien faire plus de trente ans que je l'ai vu et des images de ce film de Resnais,
sa construction en flashbacks disloqués et son humour noir me sont restés intactes.
Longtemps indisponible Dissidenz/Blaq Out
viennent de le ré-editer.
Posted at 12:00 #
Le Mercure Galant
The Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles are in the process of digitalising and publishing all the airs from the Mercure. Already some 200 airs from the 1670s and 80s en ligne. Wonderful
Posted at 21:38 #
It's getting a little complicated.
I've semi retired the photolog and moved it to flickr. Links personal and musical go to delicious and I'm gradualy picking up my old weblog again. So I'm giving Jaiku a try to see if that can help tie everything together nicely.
Posted at 21:58 #
A l'ouest des rails
Un chef d'oeuvre de documentaire fleuve de neuve heures de Wang Bing
Posted at 21:38 #
Site, festival and concerts
I've published a new site for our renaissance flute ensemble "Un Doulx Regard", we soon have our flute days with Nancy Hadden and several concerts coming up afterwards.
Posted at 21:40 #
Bela Tarr
I still think Werckmeister Harmoniak is one of the finest films I've seen in years but I realy do not remember the last time a film impressed me as much as Satantango. Good review here and a more general overview of Tarr's films here, DVD available in france from Clavis films
Posted at 21:17 #
Petits airs tendres
When I last posted it was about Ballards Brunetes and after a hiatus my first new post is again about Brunettes. This time because i've built a site to host a full facsimile of the Ballards third, 1711 volume.
Also new is a site for our renaissance flute ensemble 'Un Doulx Regard'
Posted at 22:06 #
Ce caractère Tendre, Aisé, Naturel, qui flatte toujours.
Les airs dont il est composé ont été appellés BRUNETES, par rapport à celuy qui commence "Le beau Berger Tircis, &c" qui finit par ces paroles, "Helas, Brunets, mes amours," Une preuve de la bonté de ces Airs, c'est que malgré leur ancienneté, on ne laisse pas de les apprendre & de les chanter encore tous les jours; ceux même qui possedent la musique dans toute son étendue, se font un plaisir d'y goûter ce caractère Tendre, Aisé, Naturel, qui flatte toujours, sans lasser jamais, & qui va beaucoup plus au coeur qu'a l'esprit.
From the Avertissement to Brunetes meslees de chansons a danser, Ballard. Facsimile edition La Société de Musicologie de Languedoc
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