This three-volume study considers two major groups of Charpentier's oeuvre: the self-contained musico-dramatic Pastorales composed for his pious patroness, the Duchesse de Guise, and others; and the intermedes and incidental music written for Moliere and the Comedie-Franpise. The Introduction to Volume One sets Charpentier in his milieu in late seventeenth-century France and provides a background to the categories of stage work for which he composed. Chapter one discusses the Pastorale, its history, the de Guise household, and Charpentier's compositions, and chapter two the intermedes and incidental music for the Comedie-Franpise, mentioning the relationship between Moli-ere and Lully, Lully's ordinances, the personnel, and the works. Chapter three discusses the music of all these works in five categories (instrumental music, recitatif and ariose, air, ensemble, and choruses) and attempts to draw some conclusions. Volume one concludes with an appendix which cites the sources of all the works under discussion, and a bibliography. The most important contribution of this thesis is the nine complete transcriptions contained in Volumes Two and Three (five Pastorales in Volume Two and incidental music for four Comedie-Fransaise productions in Volume Three) along with commentary. In addition, Volume Two outlines the editorial procedures adopted for the transcriptions and includes comments on such matters as key signatures, time signatures and tempi, and ornamentation.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 2007. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 1 février 2007). In ProQuest dissertations and theses. Publié aussi en version papier.

Fonds Français 2245 is a fifteenth-century chansonnier of the Duke of Orleans which is property of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. This thesis describes the document and provides commentary and transcriptions.

Thesis (Ph. D. in French)--Vanderbilt University, May 2005. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This annotated translation of Chabanon's Musique considérée with accompanying analysis seeks to establish the aesthetic principles expressed in his book as a significant and independentdeparture from the musical doctrines which prevailed in eighteenth-century France.

Studies of eighteenth-century French musical aesthetics have traditionally focused on questions of taste treated in the critical literature of the day. During the first half of the century, however, certain French writers were dealing with aesthetics in the stricter sense of the word, proposing theories of beauty that suited existing philosophical values. The treatises in which these ideas were set forth--Jean-Pierre de Crousaz' Traité du beau, Jean-Baptiste DuBos' Réflexions critiques sur la poësie et sur la peinture, Yves-Marie André's Essai sur le beau, and Charles Batteux' Les Beaux arts réduits à un même principe--are among the first learned writings to present the musical experience in something other than a mathematical or pedagogical light. This study investigates not only the role music played in these theories of beauty, but also the methodological problems inherent in translating this data into historical information.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris X, 1971. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 727-730) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris X, 1971. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 727-730) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University

By the early eighteenth century, French music was tangibly influenced by the Italian style which had already permeated much of Europe. The French Cantata is symptomatic of that often disparaged influx. The cantatas of Rameau are a significant contribution to an important form. Written almost entirely in the early years of the artist's career, they hold details of his stylistic development. In the present study of Rameau's cantatas several aspects of his style are discussed as they relate both to his theoretic writings and to the various influences of the time. Examples of those stylistic elements found in the cantatas are cited and discussed. There is, as well, a comparison of the works to the poetic form standardized by Rousseau.