Michel pignolet de monteclair (1667-1737) - vie et oeuvre d'un musicien francais
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Abstract EN:
Monteclair, french composer of the baroc era, represents the link beetween lully's and rameau's style. Having tried every kind of musics, he transmits in each (instrumental or vocal music, and operas) the inheritage of the french aesthetic of the seventeenth century, and the influences, specially from italy, which mark its evolution. Also author of treatises of music, he gives us a precious testimony concerning the interpretation of his music and of the music of his time, which comes from both his experience of teaching and his frequentation of the academie royale de musique where he played during near forty years the violin bass.
Abstract FR:
Monteclair, compositeur francais de l'epoque baroque, assure la transition, musicalement parlant, entre le style de lully et celui de rameau. Ayant aborde tous les genres, il transmet dans chacun (musique instrumentale, musique vocale, operas) les acquis de l'esthetique francaise du dix-septieme siccle, et les influences, notamment italiennes, qui marquent son evolution. Auteur egalement, de traites de musique, il nous laisse un precieux temoignage concernant l'interpretation de sa musique et de celle de son epoque, qui s'appuie a la fois sur son experiance de l'enseignement de la musique et sur sa frequentation de l'academie royale de musique ou il occupa pendant pres de quarante ans un poste de joueur de basse de violon.