Rolf Norsen

Clément Janequin (eBook, PDF)

French Composer at the Dawn of Music Publishing

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Produktbeschreibung

Clément Janequin's spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteenth-century Europe, and earned him lasting success with vocal ensembles and audiences around the world.

Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelaisian wit.

This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805432951
• Artikelnr.: 70183400

Autorenporträt

ROLF NORSEN is a choral conductor, stage director, and dramatist based in Norway and Italy. He is the author of several plays (in Norwegian) two opera librettos and I manoscritti musicali del Duomo di Castelfranco Veneto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Guidelines for the Reader Music Examples Secular Works Sacred Works
Documents Manuscript Sources Printed Sources Chapter 1: Beginnings The
Janequin Name The Janequin Family in Bourges The Janequin Family in
Châtellerault Janequin's Date of Birth Chapter 2: Bordeaux The City and its
Institutions Lancelot du Fau Choirmaster in Luçon Lancelot du Fau as
Janequin's Patron Chapter 3: Descriptive Chansons "The Lark"
("L'Alouette"/"Or sus, or sus") (LM5a/b) "The Song of the Birds" ("Le Chant
des oiseaux"/"Reveillez-vous") (LM2) "The Battle of Marignan" ("La
Guerre"/"Escoutez") (LM3) "The Hunt" ("La Chasse"/"Gentilz veneurs") (LM4)
"The Market Cries of Paris" ("Les Cris de Paris"/"Voulez ouyr") (LM14)
Chronology of the Early Descriptive Chansons Shifts in Focus in the Early
Descriptive Chansons Chapter 4: National Attention Archbishop Jean de Foix
The Royal Visit to Bordeaux of 1526 Pierre Attaingnant and the Chansons de
maistre Clement Janequin The Document Trail in Bordeaux "Chantons, sonnons"
and the Release of the Princes (1530) Choirmaster in Auch (1531) The Missa
La bataille of 1532 Chapter 5: Angers The Cathedral St. Maurice Françoise
Auvé and the Abbey of Ronceray The Gondis, the Guises and Angevine
Continuity Levron's "Western Renaissance" The Motets of 1533 Cathedral
Choirmaster Chanson Production 1533-1537 Chanson Production 1537-1549 The
Waning of the House of Attaingnant Periodization, Provincialism, and
Productivity Chapter 6: Chansons musicales Categories Parameters Vocal
Ranges Melodic Practice Tonality and Harmonic Practices Durational Values
and Metric Combinations Texture Texts and Text Treatment Chapter 7: Du
Chemin and the 28 Psalms of 1549 Changes at Court The Breaking of
Attaingnant's Monopoly Changes in Angers Paris: When and How? Parisian
Printer Nicolas du Chemin Du Chemin and Janequin The "Psalm Vogue" The 28
Psalms of 1549 Janequin's Motives Chapter 8: Paris 1551-1555 Claude
Goudimel Pierre de Ronsard and Les Amours of 1552 The Mass "L'Aveuglé dieu"
The Second Book of Spiritual Chansons and Cantiques The Invention Series
Chapter 9: Prebends, Patrons, and the Commerce of Music Printing Prebends
Court Support and Royal Titles Janequin and the Music Printing Industry
1528-1547 Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1547-1558 Chapter 10:
Paris 1556-1558 Fezandat Le Roy and Ballard The Premier livre of 1556 The
Spiritual Chansons The Late Chansons The Proverbs The Verger de musique
The 82 Psalms Last Will and Testament Epilogue Appendix A: Documents
Appendix B: Manuscript Sources Appendix C: Printed Sources Appendix D:
Revised Secular Catalogue Appendix E: Catalogue of Sacred Vocal Works by
Janequin Bibliography Index