Thanks, Jean-Marie.Denise Launay's book sounds good, so I've ordered a copy
from an Oxfam shop. The book should arrive in a few days.
Best wishes,
Stewart.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Marie Poirier
Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2020 8:17 AM
To: Stewart McCoy
Cc: Lute Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ballard 1612
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 <lu...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> 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
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