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

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Beverly Scheibert
1985
Published by: Indiana University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

I. The Times

II. D’Anglebert—Life and Works

III. Style and Tempo

IV. Ornamentation

V. Ornament Performance: Treatises by St. Lambert and Rousseau

VI. Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Variations

VII. The Organ Works

VIII. Classical Suite Order in France

IX. The Unmeasured Preludes

X. The Keyboard Dances

Conclusion

Appendix I: Sources and Editions

Appendix 2: Newly Discovered Pieces by D’anglebert

Appendix 3: Transcriptions by D’anglebert

Appendix 4: Other Figures of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Bibliography

Notes

Index

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