Francois Couperin's contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. Francois Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' updates and expands upon David Tunley's valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperin's output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperin's concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperin's work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, and it becomes clear that Couperin's expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices, including the prefaces to Couperin's work both in the original French and in English translation, and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.
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David Tunley is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
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The history of European music is essentially the history of changing styles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two organ masses, pour les paroisses, pour les couvents, void notation, concerts royaux, nouveaux concerts, harpsichord pieces, cantata composers, plein jeu, bien chanter, grand orgue, tout est perdu, two harpsichords, harpsichord music, trio sonatas, harpsichord playing, duple time, bass viol, motivic development, melodic style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louis Couperin, Royal Chapel, Early Music, Michel Corrette, Titon du Tillet, Michel Lambert, Couplet Dialogue, David Tunley, Kenneth Gilbert, Jean Rousseau, New York, Palais Royal, Pierre Citron, Count of Toulouse, Holy Week, Julie Anne Sadie, Laurence Dreyfus, Les Baricades, Lionel Sawkins, Catherine Massip, Elysian Fields, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Ist Ordre, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maundy Thursday New!
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The history of European music is essentially the history of changing styles. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
two organ masses, pour les paroisses, pour les couvents, void notation, concerts royaux, nouveaux concerts, harpsichord pieces, cantata composers, plein jeu, bien chanter, grand orgue, tout est perdu, two harpsichords, harpsichord music, trio sonatas, harpsichord playing, duple time, bass viol, motivic development, melodic style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louis Couperin, Royal Chapel, Early Music, Michel Corrette, Titon du Tillet, Michel Lambert, Couplet Dialogue, David Tunley, Kenneth Gilbert, Jean Rousseau, New York, Palais Royal, Pierre Citron, Count of Toulouse, Holy Week, Julie Anne Sadie, Laurence Dreyfus, Les Baricades, Lionel Sawkins, Catherine Massip, Elysian Fields, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Ist Ordre, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Maundy Thursday New!
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- French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau: Revised and Expanded Edition by James R. Antony on 7 pages
- The Eighteenth-Century French Cantata by David Tunley on page 37, and Back Matter
- A General History of Music by Charles Burney on page 21, and Back Matter
- Harpsichord and Clavichord by Raymond Russell on page 119, and Back Matter
- Dance and Music of Court and Theater: Selected Writings of Wendy Hilton (Wendy Hilton Dance and Music Series) by Wendy Hilton on page 20, and Back Matter
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