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Why do we call our site "Ranums' Panat Times"? The answer is simple: in theory (if not always in practice) we have oodles of "time" to read and think during our summers in a tiny French hilltop village, Panat.

***Our recent pages***

Click here for Orest Ranum's "Panat Times"
Send an e-mail to Orest at:  orestranum@verizon.net

          or click here to go directly to his Book reviews
                   or his articles, essays and syllabi
                  or the visitor reviews he hosts

Click here for Patricia Ranum's "Musicological Musings"  
Send an e-mail to Patricia at:  orestranum@verizon.net

       or click here to go directly to her pages on Marc-Antoine Charpentier
             or here to see the "new" portrait of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
         or here for her  Musings on word-music relationships in French baroque music

In addition to their separate projects:

Orest and Patricia are making available some transcribed manuscript sources. This project includes a collection of "Fugitive Pieces,"  (Pièces fugitives) that they happened upon in libraries or archives: on those pages you will find excerpts from correspondence, gazettes, and obscure books.

How to purchase Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier if you live abroad.

But, Patricia's book is now available for a sharply reduced price ($35) at Amazon.com.  Click the box below to order her book from Amazon: