Overview

Clement Janequin's spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteenth-century Europe, and earned him lasting success with vocal ensembles and audiences around the world. Clement Janequin was the musical posterboy for the Valois kings of France, a best-seller for the fledgling 16th century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huegenot melodies. Ever since the sixteen century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelasian wit. This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundred.) It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Lucon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and a portion Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.

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Author:   Dr Rolf Norsen
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   University of Rochester Press
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781648250859

ISBN 10:   1648250858
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   14 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

"Preface Guidelines for the Reader Music Examples Secular Works Sacred Works Documents Manuscript Sources Printed Sources Chapter 1: Beginnings The Janequin Name The Janequin Family in Bourges The Janequin Family in Châtellerault Janequin's Date of Birth Chapter 2: Bordeaux The City and its Institutions Lancelot du Fau Choirmaster in Luçon Lancelot du Fau as Janequin's Patron Chapter 3: Descriptive Chansons ""The Lark"" (""L'Alouette""/""Or sus, or sus"") (LM5a/b) ""The Song of the Birds"" (""Le Chant des oiseaux""/""Reveillez-vous"") (LM2) ""The Battle of Marignan"" (""La Guerre""/""Escoutez"") (LM3) ""The Hunt"" (""La Chasse""/""Gentilz veneurs"") (LM4) ""The Market Cries of Paris"" (""Les Cris de Paris""/""Voulez ouyr"") (LM14) Chronology of the Early Descriptive Chansons Shifts in Focus in the Early Descriptive Chansons Chapter 4: National Attention Archbishop Jean de Foix The Royal Visit to Bordeaux of 1526 Pierre Attaingnant and the Chansons de maistre Clement Janequin The Document Trail in Bordeaux ""Chantons, sonnons"" and the Release of the Princes (1530) Choirmaster in Auch (1531) The Missa La bataille of 1532 Chapter 5: Angers The Cathedral St. Maurice Françoise Auvé and the Abbey of Ronceray The Gondis, the Guises and Angevine Continuity Levron's ""Western Renaissance"" The Motets of 1533 Cathedral Choirmaster Chanson Production 1533-1537 Chanson Production 1537-1549 The Waning of the House of Attaingnant Periodization, Provincialism, and Productivity Chapter 6: Chansons musicales Categories Parameters Vocal Ranges Melodic Practice Tonality and Harmonic Practices Durational Values and Metric Combinations Texture Texts and Text Treatment Chapter 7: Du Chemin and the 28 Psalms of 1549 Changes at Court The Breaking of Attaingnant's Monopoly Changes in Angers Paris: When and How? Parisian Printer Nicolas du Chemin Du Chemin and Janequin The ""Psalm Vogue"" The 28 Psalms of 1549 Janequin's Motives Chapter 8: Paris 1551-1555 Claude Goudimel Pierre de Ronsard and Les Amours of 1552 The Mass ""L'Aveuglé dieu"" The Second Book of Spiritual Chansons and Cantiques The Invention Series Chapter 9: Prebends, Patrons, and the Commerce of Music Printing Prebends Court Support and Royal Titles Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1528-1547 Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1547-1558 Chapter 10: Paris 1556-1558 Fezandat Le Roy and Ballard The Premier livre of 1556 The Spiritual Chansons The Late Chansons The Proverbs The Verger de musique The 82 Psalms Last Will and Testament Epilogue Appendix A: Documents Appendix B: Manuscript Sources Appendix C: Printed Sources Appendix D: Revised Secular Catalogue Appendix E: Catalogue of Sacred Vocal Works by Janequin Bibliography Index"

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ROLF NORSEN is a choral conductor, stage director, and dramatist based in Norway and Italy. He is the author of several plays (in Norwegian) two opera librettos and I manoscritti musicali del Duomo di Castelfranco Veneto.

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