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  • Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript ed. by Bruce Gustafson, and: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript ed. Bruce Gustafson, and: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript ed. by Bruce Gustafson, and: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript ed. by Bruce Gustafson
  • David Chung
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript. Edited by Bruce Gustafson. Part I: Works by Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. (The Art of the Keyboard, 10.) New York: The Broude Trust, 2014. [Contents of parts I–IV, p. vii–xiv; list of illus., p. xv; publisher’s pref., p. xvii; acknowledgments, p. xix; editorial policies, p. xxiii–xxvi; sigla, p. xxvii; score, p. 2–161. ISBN 0-8450-7601-9. $150.]
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript. Edited by Bruce Gustafson. Part II: Works by Louis Couperin. (The Art of the Keyboard, 10.) New York: The Broude Trust, 2014. [Contents of parts I–IV, p. vii–xiv; list of illus., p. xv; editorial policies, p. xix–xxii; sigla, p. xxiii; score, p. 2–207. ISBN 0-8450-7601-9. $150.]
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript. Edited by Bruce Gustafson. Part III: Works by Various Composers. (The Art of the Keyboard, 10.) New York: The Broude Trust, 2014. [Contents of parts I–IV, p. vii–xiv; list of illus., p. xv; editorial policies, p. xix–xxii; sigla, p.xxiii–xxiv; score, p. 2–175. ISBN 0-8450-7601-9. $150.]
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675: The Bauyn Manuscript. Edited by Bruce Gustafson. Part IV: Commentary. (The Art of the Keyboard, 10.) New York: The Broude Trust, 2014. [Contents of parts I–IV, p. vii–xiv; list of illus., p. xv; historical introd., p. 3–38; crit. report, p. 40–190; bibliog., p.193–99. ISBN 0-84k50-7601-9. $150.] [End Page 216]

The Bauyn manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Rés. Vm7 674–675) is the largest surviving anthology of French harpsichord music from the seventeenth century. It preserves for us a precious collection of works by Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Louis Couperin, and their closest circle, and includes nearly 150 unica. In addition, as the largest French source of keyboard music by Johann Jacob Froberger, it corroborates the rapport between Louis Couperin’s unmeasured preludes and Froberger’s toccata style. The manuscript was brought to modern attention by Henri Quittard in his pioneering study on Chambonnières’s music (“Un claveciniste français du XVIIe siècle: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières,” La tribune de Saint-Gervais: Bulletin mensuel de la Schola Cantorum 7 [1901]: 1–11, 33–44, 71–77, 105–10, 141–49), and was quickly recognized as a major source for this repertory. But despite intense scholarly effort for over a century, the manuscript’s history and purpose, as Gustafson frankly admits (part IV, p. 3), are largely steeped in mystery. For one thing, the identity of the scribe is still unknown. For another, the dating has been revised several times, but as yet no definitive date has been assigned. Earlier researchers from Quittard to François Lesure (introduction to Manuscrit Bauyn: Pièces de clavecin c1660 (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Rés. Vm7 674–675, facsimile [Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1977]) proposed dates between ca. 1660 and 1670, largely based on their examination of the contents and other physical evidence, in particular the three dates (1650, 1656, and 1658) found written into the source. More recent work on the identification of the paper (Bruce Gustafson and David Fuller, Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music 1699–1780 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990]), watermarks (Davitt Moroney, introduction to Manuscrit Bauyn, ca. 1690: fac-similé du manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Rés. Vm7 674–675 [Geneva: Minkoff, 1998], corrected reprint of the Minkoff 1977 facsimile...

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