Oates for Tanger
Fri, 5 Dec 2008
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.
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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 #
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
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