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"French" cahiers for 1678

There is not a great deal to say about relationships between the Guise activities for this year and the works in cahiers 20 and 21. It is, of course, clear that Mme de Guise was being very supportive of her cousin Louis XIV's military efforts. We also see that she and Mlle de Guise were doing a lot of entertaining (chiefly for Mme de Toscane), but these activities do not show up in Charpentier's notebooks. (If he wrote for these events, he clearly copied the pieces into one of the booklets mentioned in the Mémoire of  1727, since lost.) Nor can we link any of the preludes in the Roman notebooks (1677-1670) to the different sacres or installations of abbesses which Their Highnesses attended in 1678. In sum, it does not seem that Charpentier composed all that much for his protrectresses in 1678, and I can't begin to say why ! (Note also that, M. Du Bois having regained his health and being once again in charge of the ensemble, the "hc" disappears from the notebooks.

 

Date	Work	Performers
	cahier 20
June 9?	H 240 O sacrum pour trois religieuses	2 hd hc
Spring	H 168 Psalmus in tempore belli pro rege (ps. 5) Sunday matins. "Son prélude est au cahyer XXIII," which suggests a reuse in 1679.	large ensemble
	H 60 Hymne pour toutes les festes de la Vierge: Ave maris stella vespers, vespers of the Virgin.	hd d  b 2 tr
	cahier 21
June 9	H 14 Prose du Saint Sacrement: Lauda Sion salvatorem Corpus Christi	hd d  b 2 tr
June 9?	H 241 Elevatio: Venite fideles	b 2 tr
	H 169 In convertendo Dominus (ps. 125) Tuesday vespers, little office of the Virgin, Wednesdays in Lent, feasts of the apostles	large ensemble