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Clément Janequin
French Composer at the Dawn of Music Publishing
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Rolf Norsen
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2024
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Clément 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.
Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth 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 Rabelaisian 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 Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, 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 Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth 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 Rabelaisian 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 Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, 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 Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
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Contributor: Rolf Norsen
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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The most comprehensive and up-to-date attempt to reconstruct Janequin's biography and examine his output...Written in an agile prose, with a tinge of humour where appropriate, Norsen's book will undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience ranging from scholars to amateur performer. Accompanied by an online companion.
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It stands out as a landmark study, the impressive result of a sustained effort that cannot but have a durable impact.
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Preface
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Guidelines for the Reader
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1 Beginnings
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2 Bordeaux
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3 Descriptive Chansons
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4 National Attention
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5 Angers
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6 Chansons musicales
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7 Du Chemin and the 28 Psalms of 1549
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8 Paris, 1551–55
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9 Prebends, Patrons, and the Commerce of Music Printing
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10 Paris, 1556–58
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Epilogue
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Appendix A: Documents
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Appendix B: Manuscript Sources
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Appendix C: Printed Sources
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Appendix D: Revised Secular Catalogue
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Appendix E: Catalogue of Sacred Vocal Works by Janequin
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 15, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781805432951
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University of Rochester Press
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Keywords for this book
Music printing; Reformation; Huegenot melodies; Rabelasian; Old One Hundred; Pierre Attaingnant; Renaissance; Parisian chanson
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
