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Air De Cour
The ''air de cour'' was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650. From approximately 1610 to 1635, during the reign of Louis XIII, this was the predominant form of secular vocal composition in France, especially in the royal court. Features The first use of the term ''air de cour'' was in Adrian Le Roy's ''Airs de cour miz sur le luth'' (Book on Court Tunes for the Luth), a collection of music published in 1571. The earliest examples of the form are for solo voice accompanied by lute;Buelow, 2004, p. 156 towards the end of the 16th century, four or five voices are common, sometimes accompanied (or instrumental accompaniment may have been optional); and by the mid-17th century, most ''airs de cour'' were again for solo voice with accompaniment. Beginning in 1608, ''airs de cour'' were often taken from ''ballets de cour'', a form of ballet which was quickly becoming popular at the French cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
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Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Gouy
Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) was a French Baroque composer of Dutch ancestry. He was acquainted with composers in Parisian music circles of the early 17th century such as Étienne Moulinié and Michel Lambert. Works In his writings, de Gouy mentions having composed motets and '' airs,'' yet all of his published work is lost, save his ''Airs à quatre parties sur la Paraphrase des pseaumes de Godeau'' (1650), a setting of Antoine Godeau's ''Paraphrases'', including a long and informative preface. De Gouy only published the first 50 of the 150 psalms, because the work was received as too academic. De Gouy promoted Jean Le Maire's new system of notation, called "la musique almérique", by handing out engraved music scores to concert guests attending the premiere of ''Estrennes pour Messieurs et Dames du Concert de la Musique Almérique, presentée par M. Goüy premier professeur en icelle: en l'année 1642'', a chanson in four parts specifically written for that occasio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Cambefort
Jean de Cambefort ( – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (''recits'') for the '' Ballet de la Nuit'', performed in 1653.Part books of 1655 for ''II. livre d'airs à quatre parties, de Monsieur de Cambefort. Sur-intendant et maistre ordinaire de la Musique de la Chambre du Roy''haute-contre an basse-continue published online at Gallica on September 3, 2015. Works * ''Ballet de la Nuit'', 1653; * ''Récit du temps et des quatre saisons'', v ''Ballet du Temps'' ([...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Moulinié
Étienne Moulinié (10 October 1599 – 1676) was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine (died 1655), Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the king. For this post he wrote sacred and secular music, for voice or voices and lute or continuo. He also wrote music to accompany the ''ballet'' or other dances. He taught Gaston's daughter, Mlle de Montpensier. Moulinié worked for Gaston until the latter's death in 1660, at which point he was forced to find new employment. For this he returned to his birthplace of Languedoc.Grove, "Étienne Moulinié" Moulinié wrote in the genres of ''airs de cour'' and '' airs à boire''. His ''airs de cour'' are strophic and syllabic, but generally freer than others in the genre. His works were printed in a number of different forms (for voices alone and v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Boësset
Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour. He and his father-in-law Pierre Guédron dominated the court's musical life for the first half of the 17th century under Louis XIII. His son Jean-Baptiste eBoesset, sieur de Dehault, composed church music. Life Born at Blois and baptised there on 24 February 1587, he was made master of the children within the musical household of the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1613. He rose to be the queen's music master in 1617 and secretary to the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1620, and finally ''surintendant'' of the musical household of the ''Chambre du roi'' in 1623 – in the last of these roles he succeeded Guédron (''surintendant'' under Henry IV and Louis XIII), whose daughter he married in 1613. In 1632 he was ''conseiller'' and ''maître d'hôtel'' ''ordinaire du roi.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Richard
François Richard (ca. 15851650) was a French composer of ''airs de cour.'' His ''Airs de cour a quatre parties'' (1637) mentions the pleasure Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ... found in the music of his Chamber.''French baroque music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau'' James R. Anthony - 1978 "François Richard (c. 1585-1650), in the dedication to Louis XIII found in his Airs de cour a quatre parties (1637), alluded to the pleasure the king took in the music of his Chamber: 'I know that after the sounds of the trumpets and drums, those of lute and voices do not displease you.”..." Works, editions and recordings *Airs de cour avec la tablature de luth 1637 *Airs de cour a quatre parties 1637 *''Amarante'' Céline Scheen Eduardo Egüez, Flora 2010 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Guédron
Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – c. 1620 in Paris), was a French singer and composer known for writing ''Airs de cour'' (including ''Cessés mortels de soupirer''). Guédron's ''Est-ce Mars'' (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Sweelinck (keyboard), Scheidt (5 part strings) and Vallet (4 lutes of different sizes). Works *6 books of ''Airs de cour The ''air de cour'' was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650. From approximately 1610 to 1635, during the reign of Louis XIII, this was the predominant ... à quatre et cinq parties'' *''Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth'' *1602: ''Ballet sur la Naissance de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme'' *1610: ''Ballet de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme oder Ballet d’Alcine'' *1613: ''Ballet de Madame'' *1614: ''Ballet des Argonautes'' *1615: ''Ballet du Triomphe de Minerve'' *1615: ''Ballet de M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Mauduit
Jacques Mauduit (16 September 1557 – 21 August 1627) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand polychoral style of the Venetian School from Italy; he also composed a famous Requiem for the funeral of Pierre de Ronsard. Life Much of the biographical information about Mauduit comes from the writings of Marin Mersenne. Mauduit was born in Paris, and being an aristocrat, received an excellent education in humanities, languages and philosophy, but was evidently self-taught in music. Mauduit was a member of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, the secretive group founded by Jean Antoine de Baïf to promote '' musique mesurée à l'antique'', an attempt to recreate the rhetorical and ethical effect of ancient Greek music using modern French poetry and music. After the death of Joachim Thibault de Courville in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tessier
Charles Tessier (ca. 1550 – after 1604) was a French composer and lutenist.Lute Society journal: Volume 20 Lute Society (Great Britain) - 1978 THE LUTE AIRS OF CHARLES TESSIER. FRANK DOBBINS. Although no corroboration has been found for Fetis' assertion that Charles Tessier was born at Pezenas in the Herault cl550, it seems likely that he was related to Guillaume Tessier, .. While in London he set sonnets from '' Astrophel and Stella'' dedicated to Lady Penelope Rich. Works, editions and recordings *chansons and airs de cour in French, Italian and Gascon language Gascon (; , ) is the name of the vernacular Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France. It is often considered a variety of Occitan, although some authors consider it a different language.Cf. Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1970. ''Le ... for 4 and 5 voices, London 1597. *Airs 3 Paris 1604. References 1550s births 17th-century deaths 17th-century classical composers French Baroque composers F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas De La Grotte
Nicolas de La Grotte (also La Crotte) (1530 – c. 1600) was a French composer and keyboard player of the Renaissance. He was well known as a performer on the organ and on the spinet, as well as a composer of chansons; in addition he was one of very few French composers of the 16th century with a surviving composition written specifically for the keyboard. Life Nothing is known about his early life; the first record of La Grotte's life is from 1557, when he was employed as a keyboard player (organ and spinet) to the King of Navarre, Antoine de Bourbon, at Pau in southwestern France. In 1562 he was given a position with the Duke of Anjou, along with Guillaume Costeley, and when the Duke of Anjou became King Henry III of France in 1574, La Grotte acquired the prestigious post of 'vallet de chambre et organiste ordinaire'. His reputation as an organist seems to have been high; several writers in the early 1580s, such as La Croix du Maine and Jean Dorat, praised his playing. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air (music)
An air ( it, aria; also ''ayr'', ''ayre'' in French) is a song-like vocal or instrumental composition. The term can also be applied to the interchangeable melodies of folk songs and ballads. It is a variant of the musical song form often referred to (in opera, cantata and oratorio) as aria. English lute ayres Lute airs were first produced in the royal court of England toward the end of the 16th century and enjoyed considerable popularity until the 1620s. Probably based on Italian monody and French '' air de cour'', they were solo songs, occasionally with more (usually three) parts, accompanied on a lute.G. J. Buelow, ''History of Baroque Music: Music in the 17th and First Half of the 18th Centuries'', Indiana University Press, 2004 (p. 306). Their popularity began with the publication of John Dowland's (1563–1626) ''First Booke of Songs or Ayres'' (1597). His most famous airs include " Come again", "Flow, my tears", " I saw my Lady weepe", and " In darkness let me dwell". The ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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