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"French" cahiers for 1683  

For the early 1680s it is difficult to assert that all works for "hd, d, b and 2 tr" in the "French" notebooks were performed only by the Guise Music. Could they not have been "loaned," so to speak, to the Dauphin? That said, I mark them in blue, the color of Mlle de Guise. The "hc" highlighted in red suggests a work sung by Charpentier. (The fact that this haute-contre sang in August 1683 suggests that Charpentier had recuperated from his summer-long illness. Note how compositions for Montmartre more or less ceased after the Abbess became ill in October 1682 and died in December.

 

Date	Work	Performers
	cahier 37
	H 187 Fundamenta ejus in montibus sanctis (ps. 86) Thursday and Friday matins; matins of Circumcision (Jan. 1), Conception (Dec. 8), Epiphany (Jan. 6), Transfiguration (Aug. 6); little office of Virgin; dedication of a church.	2d b
	H. 407 Dialogue inter esurientem sitentem et Christem This follows directly upon H 187, which suggests that the two works for a rather atypical combination of voices were written for the same devotional event.	2d b
	cahier 38
August 17-23	H 331 Luctus de morte augustissimae Mariae Theresiae reginae Galliae "Motet pour le service de Marie Thérèse, reine de France," which uses a text by Portes. (May have been reused for the Mercy service of September 13.)	hc t b 2 tr
August 25	H 332 In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliae "Motet pour St Louis," which uses virtually the same text as the one in cahier 22 of 1679. Forms a pair with H. 331 and probably was performed at the same event.	hc t b 2 tr
	H 471 Orphée descendant aux enfers	hc t b instr
	H 252 Elévation: O coelestis Jerusalem	hc t b instr
	cahier 39
September?	H 190 Dixit Dominus 8 vocibus et totidam instr. (ps. 109) Sunday vespers; feasts of the Virgin; little office of the Virgin; Corpus Christi. Could it have been used for the annual Guise service for the Holy Sacrement at Saint-Jean-en-Grève?	large ensemble
	H 253 O Amor, élévation à 2 dessus et une basse chantante "Son prélude est au cahyer LVIII à 2," which seems to date from the 1690s, as do the indications for transposing the piece for male voices.	hd d b
	cahier 40
	H 191 Lauda Jerusalem (ps. 147) Saturday prime; vespers of the Conception (Dec. 8), Circumcision (Jan. 1), Corpus Christi, common of Virgin, dedication of a church	large ensemble