Jean-Henry D'Anglebert and the Seventeenth-Century Clavecin School Beverly Scheibert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerold, Beverly, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keyboard instrument music.

Composers.

Keyboard instrument music--France--17th century--History and criticism.

Composers--France--Biography.

France.

Anglebert, J. Henry d' (Jean Henry), 1629-1691.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 239 pages) : illustrations)

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1985

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean-HenryD'Anglebert, who was active at the court of Louis XIV of France, was one of the most significant musicians of his time. His music is characterized by a superb sense of rhythm, a highly deve!oped harmonic language, and luxuriant ornamentation. Pièces de clavecin of l689, his only published work, contains a table of 29 ornaments, many of which D'Anglebert devised and on which much of his fame rests. Beverly Scheiberta lso examines D'Anglebert's important contributions to the unmeasured prelude, organ composition, and transcription. She discusses classical suite order in France and devotes a long chapter to analyzing the various keyboard dances. Her book is a valuable reference work and a lively acmunt of a unique age.

Contents:

The times

D'Anglebert : Life and works

Style and tempo

Ornamentation

Ornament performance : Treatises by St.-Lambert and Rousseau

Transcriptions, arrangements, and variations

The organ works

Classical suite order in France

The unmeasured preludes

The keyboard dances

Appendix 1 : sources and editions

Appendix 2 : newly discovered pieces by D'Anglebert

Appendix 3 : transcriptions by D'Anglebert.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-253-05569-5

OCLC:

1259587685