Incidentally, on this topic of airs spirituels in France in the 17th century, the French musicologist Denise Launay on her book « La Musique Religieuse en France du Concile de Trente à 1804 » dévotes a whole chapter, with lots of examples, to these collections for one voice with or without bass...
Happy reading, Jean-Marie > Le 2 févr. 2020 à 00:40, Stewart McCoy <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Thanks, Rainer. Much appreciated. > > There are some other interesting books to be found at the same library. If > you click on "Rechercher" and do a search for "luth", you'll find more > tablature with a copy of Piccinini. There is also an interesting looking > collection of songs by Chancy. Most intriguing are three song collections > (in one volume) by François Berthod, who flourished in the 1650s. He took > songs by well-known French composers, and replaced their words with a > spiritual text. There is a brief Wiki article about him. On the title page of > his books there is a left-handed lute-player with a six-string (single > courses) lute. All the songs are for two voices - treble and bass - with both > parts texted. There are no figures for the bass part, yet a chordal > accompaniment on a lute or theorbo should nevertheless be possible. > > I would be interested to know what the songs are, to which Berthod set his > spiritual text. There is no way of knowing from Berthod's collection, and > although the library mentions composers like Bacilly and Le Camus, they don't > seem to say who wrote which songs, and what the original words were. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart. > > -----Original Message----- From: Rainer > Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2020 4:09 PM > To: Lute net > Subject: [LUTE] Ballard 1612 > > https://mazarinum.bibliotheque-mazarine.fr/ark:/61562/mz3446 > > Click under "Télécharger" > > Rainer > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
