|
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's
Manuscripts
Manuscript "XLI" (at the Lilly Library,
Bloomington, Indiana)
The newly identified
autograph treatise by Marc-Antoine Charpentier:
a bulletin board Look
here for new information, questions, or comments about manuscript "XLI."
Discovered at the Lilly
Library: manuscript "XLI,"
an autograph theoretical work by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
(late 1698)
This is a multi-sectioned
presentation of how the manuscript was discovered, its contents and date,
and the broader intellectual context into which it fits.
The Charpentier Mélanges (at the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris)
Comments on articles in the newly-published
Actes of the Versailles
conference on Charpentier's Autograph manuscripts, 2004.
(These comments include
several Musings on what we can learn from Laurent's Guillo's findings about
the printed music paper used by Charpentier; two Musings on Thierry Favier's
observations about Charpentier's handwriting; and one on
Gaëtan Naulleau
discussion of Charpentier's Sonate (H.548).
"Order"
in Charpentier's manuscripts: are
they really "out of order"?
What
did cahiers 8, 9, 10
look like in Charpentier's lifetime?
Some
comments about C. Jane Gosine's article
on Charpentier's handwriting
A
Roundtable on the Charpentier chronology
(my planned answers to some puzzles
that
Catherine Cessac asked us to attempt to solve at the Charpentier conference in
Versailles, 2004)
The
Mémoire of
1726 that inventoried Marc-Antoine Charpentier's manuscripts
Re:
Marc-Antoine Charpentier's autograph scores, known as the
"Mélanges" or "Meslanges"
: did he compose these pieces, or did he copy other
peoples' music into these notebooks?
A Musing on
Laurent Guillo's article, "Les papiers à musique imprimés"
Montaigne's
choice of paper: does it shed light on Charpentier's
practices?
On what did
I base my conjectures about the papers used by Charpentier, post-1687?
The
watermarks of the papers used by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
The
treble clefs used by Charpentier: what can they teach us?
The
"gros
cahier": what do its contents suggest?
The 1726 Mémoire (inventory) of his
works (Mélanges)
The
Mémoire of
1726 that inventoried Marc-Antoine Charpentier's manuscripts
And some pages related to Charpentier's scribal
practices:
The Wedding Contract as a Creative Process:
The format of a typical notarial contract, and some
parallels that can be drawn with the format of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's
autograph manuscripts
a Musing on
the
handwriting in the
Biblia Sacra
in which someone named "Charpentier" twice wrote his name.
It is not Marc-Antoine Charpentier's hand.
Note, readers may occasionally be linked to a similar page called
html pages\manuscripts_charpentier.html. The links on that page are
the same as of December 2, 2011, but nothing new will be added after
that.
| 