The Ranums' Panat Times

Specific works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Musings on specific works or on performance issues are grouped in this new section:

•      Were Magdeleine and Marguerite Pièche nicknamed "Magdelon" and " Margot"?

•     "Overture" and "Opening": "Overture" and "Opening": "Ouvertures"

•     On Charpentier's Médée: Did Charpentier identify himself with Medea?

•     Was Charpentier's "Messe à 8 voix" (H. 3) written for the Canonization of Francesco  Borgia, January 1672?

•     Music's fate in the Te Deum of February 8, 1687

•     1683: The dead queen is honored through Charpentier's compositions