The Ranums' Panat Times
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opening page of Patricia's "Musings" Musings on Word-Music Relationships in French Baroque Music Since the early 1980s I have been working on the fascinating puzzle of how words and musical notation are related in French baroque music. Working in close contact with William Christie, director of the Paris-based group, Les Arts Florissants, I have written two books on the subject, plus several articles (all cited in my vita). One book is a little handbook on the French pronunciation of Latin: Méthode de la prononciation latine dite vulgaire ou à la française, petite méthode à l'usage des chanteurs et des récitants d'après le manuscrit de Dom Jacques Le Clerc (Arles: Actes Sud, 1991), with a preface by William Christie The other book is my "anatomy" of French sung (and therefore of instrumental) rhetoric: The Harmonic Orator (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2001). Musings about word-music relations: A Glossary of French "Terms of Movement"
Glossary of French Terms of Movement and
its related page, which takes you directly to the Glossary: Some Musings on Lully: The Thésée project of Les Arts Florissants and the Festival of Ambronay, France (1998) Some Musings on rhetoric Dots at the beginning of a measure: their rhetorical significance in Jacquet de La Guerre's song Rhetoric and Expression in Lully's French song Additions to the bibliography in my Harmonic Orator Seventeenth-century italian rhetoric Pronunciation How was the vowel-sound 'OI' pronounced in 17th-century France? and my Factoid on Mme de Montmartre and how she pronounced "oi" in 1680: she pronounced it like "ai" An addendum to my Méthode on pronouncing Latin à la française Wind articulations Some further thoughts about (and images of) the vowels in French tonguing syllables
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