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Clément Janequin

French Composer at the Dawn of Music Publishing

Author: Dr Rolf Norsen   Series: Eastman Studies in Music

Clément Janequin
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Looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his role as a pioneer in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music

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Looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his role as a pioneer in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music

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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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It stands out as a landmark study, the impressive result of a sustained effort that cannot but have a durable impact. THE CONSORT
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. EARLY MUSIC AMERICA

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd | University of Rochester Press
Published
14th May 2024
Pages
398
ISBN
9781648250859

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