Oates for Tanger
Wed, 24 Feb 2010
Summer schools for flautists
The 2010 version of my page listing summer schools for baroque and renaissance flautists is now available.
Posted at 10:54 #
Le Regne d'Astrée
Rather suprisingly it seems that no modern scholarly edition of l'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé exists, a situation
that is happily being addressed by a team from the Sorbonne who are publishing it on a site called Le Regne d'Astrée.
Their version is based on a full, and downloadable, scan of it available at the BNF.
Posted at 19:21 #
Nouveau recueil de chansons choisies, Jean Neaulme.
This
varied and interesting eight volume collection of songs published by Jean Neaulme went through several
editions in the early eighteenth century. It has been scanned as part of the Google books site although as they seem
to have pushed it through a fax machine rendering the music if not the text nearly illegible I'm unsure how much use it is.
Attempts to send the result through OCR software in order to recover the texts also produced
the usual dismal results.
Posted at 23:58 #
Julie Pinel's Nouveau recueil d'airs sérieux et à boire
A social, literary and musical study
of Julie Pinel's Nouveau recueil d'airs sérieux et à boire (Paris, 1737) by Corisha Brain
Posted at 22:51 #
Tendresses Bacchiques
Following on from my facsimile of Ballard's Brunetes
I have now published a facsimile version of the Tendresses Bacchiques This is a volume of songs published in 1712 that
Ballard describes as being both "tendres et à boire" and which he considered as a supplement to the volumes of Brunetes and Parodies.
Posted at 21:38 #
Couperin et les Airs Sérieux
Normaly published anonymously the Airs Serieux were nonetheless often penned by the best composers.
An interesting article by Greer Garden
on Couperin's contribution to this popular repertoire.
Posted at 20:22 #
London Pro Musica
Long absent from the net London Pro Musica now has a site with information on their editions and catalogues.
As they say "London Pro Musica Edition has one of the largest collections of early music in practical editions in the world."
Posted at 14:25 #
Flute courses this summer
Long ago and far away I put together a short list of summer schools for baroque flautists. I've dug it out again and reworked it so if you are looking for a baroque
or renaissance flute course this summer I hope this may help you.
Posted at 21:24 #
L'art du chant en France au XVIIe siècle
Despite it's age Théodore Gerold's history of french vocal music is still one of the references on the subject.
Long out of print although available in a minkoff facsimile
it is now available online.
Posted at 20:25 #
La Clef des Chansonniers
This is one of the primary sources for popular french music of the XVI and early XVII centuries.
A
digital facsimile of volume two is available here.
Posted at 20:17 #
Airs Spirituels, Benigne de Bacilly
I've now published a facsimile of the
Airs Spirituels by Bacilly. This 1688 edition revises and enlarges the earlier editions of these songs
which are, to the best of my knowledge, unavailable in any modern edition facsimile or otherwise.
The work also contains a long and interesting preface
in which Bacilly explains the virtues of setting appropriate religious texts to original music rather than the,
in his view, regretable practice of taking well known melodies and simply grafting more 'suitable'
texts onto them.
Posted at 19:43 #
Ballard's Brunetes
Some time ago I published an online facsimile of the 1711 volume 3 of Ballard's Brunetes ou petits airs
tendres at http://www.cowderoy.net/brunetes/index.html
As promised I have now added volumes 1 & 2 published in 1703 and 1704.
The original facsimiles of volume 3 were not of very good quality. The new version offers higher
definition photographs including for the previousely published volume 3 which has been entirely rephotographed.
The site address remains the same at http://www.cowderoy.net/brunetes/index.html
I have also now included some short notes on the works, a bibliography and details on copyright none of which was present previousely.
Coming soon! The 1688 edition of the "Airs Spirituels" by Bacilly.
Posted at 10:09 #
IMSLP the public domain music score library.
The IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library public domain music score library is active again.
A quick look turned up facsimiles of the Quantz duets, the Boismortier opus 3 duets
and the Sammartini sonatas
amongst much else.
Posted at 18:49 #
Recueil d'airs serieux et à boire
New digital facsimile of Ballard airs at the University of North Texas
Posted at 21:26 #
Photos from Valtice
As usual I was rather too busy playing flute at Valtice
to be able to do much photography. I did though get one or two nice shots
of our class with Nancy Hadden and more of our class mate David's son Xesco
dancing.
Posted at 23:16 #
