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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French
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composer during the reign of
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. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''
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'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still used today as a fanfare during television broadcasts of the Eurovision Network, the
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. Marc-Antoine Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality of his prolific output. He mastered all genres, and his skill in writing sacred vocal music was especially hailed by his contemporaries. He began his career by going to Italy, there he fell under the influence of
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as well as other Italian composers, perhaps Domenico Mazzocchi. He would remain marked by the Italian style and become the only one with
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in France to approach the oratorio. In 1670, he became a master of music (composer and singer) in the service of the Duchess of Guise.  From 1690 Charpentier composed ''Médée'', on a piece by
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. It would be a determining failure in his career of composer: he devoted himself henceforth to the religious music. He became the composer of the Carmelites of Rue du Bouloir, Montmartre Abbey, Abbaye-aux-Bois and
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. In 1698, Charpentier was appointed music master for the children of the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais. After having obtained from the king
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a softening of Lully's monopoly,
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turned to Charpentier to compose the music for the intermissions of ''Circe'' and ''Andromeda'', as well as sung scenes for the revivals of ''The Forced Marriage'', and finally the musical pieces of ''The Imaginary invalid''. He composed secular works, stage music,
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s,
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s,
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s,
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, as well as sacred music,
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s (large or small),
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s, masses, psalms, Magnificats, Litanies. At his death, Charpentier's complete works must have numbered about 800 opus numbers, but today only 28 autograph volumes remain, or more than 500 pieces that he himself took care to classify. This collection, called ''Mélanges'', is one of the most comprehensive sets of musical autograph manuscripts of all time.


Biography

Charpentier was born in or near Paris, the son of a master scribe who had very good connections to influential families in the Parliament of Paris. Marc-Antoine received a very good education, perhaps with the help of the Jesuits, and registered for law school in Paris when he was eighteen. He withdrew after one semester. He spent "two or three years" in Rome, probably between 1667 and 1669, and studied with
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. He is also known to have been in contact with poet-musician
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, who was composing for the French Embassy in Rome. A legend claims that Charpentier initially traveled to Rome to study painting before he was discovered by Carissimi. This story is undocumented and possibly untrue; at any rate, although his 28 volumes of autograph manuscripts reveal considerable skill at tracing the arabesques used by professional scribes, they contain not a single drawing, not even a rudimentary sketch. Regardless, he acquired a solid knowledge of contemporary Italian musical practice and brought it back to France. Immediately on his return to France, Charpentier probably began working as house composer to Marie de Lorraine, duchesse de Guise, who was known familiarly as "Mlle de Guise." She gave him an "apartment" in the recently renovated Hôtel de Guise – strong evidence that Charpentier was not a paid domestic who slept in a small room in the vast residence, but was instead a courtier who occupied one of the new apartments in the stable wing. For the next seventeen years, Charpentier composed a considerable quantity of vocal works for her, among them Psalm settings,
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s, motets, a Magnificat setting, a
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and a '' Dies Irae'' for the funeral of her nephew
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, and a succession of Italianate oratorios set to non-liturgical Latin texts. (Charpentier preferred the Latin ''canticum'' to the Italian term, ''oratorio''). Throughout the 1670s, the bulk of these works were for trios. The usual trio was two women and a singing bass, plus two treble instruments and continuo; but when performance in the chapel of a male monastic community required male voices, he would write for an haute-contre, a tenor and a bass, plus the same instruments. Then, about 1680, Mlle de Guise increased the size of the ensemble, until it included 13 performers and a singing teacher. In the pieces written from 1684 until late 1687, the names of the Guise musicians appear as marginalia in Charpentier's manuscripts – including "Charp" beside the haute-contre line. Étienne Loulié, the senior instrumentalist who played keyboard, recorder and viole, probably was entrusted with coaching the newer instrumentalists. Despite what is often asserted, during his seventeen years in the service of Mlle de Guise, Charpentier was not the "director" of the Guise ensemble. The director was a gentleman of Mlle de Guise's court, an amateur musician, Italophile, and Latinist named Philippe Goibaut, familiarly called ''Monsieur Du Bois.'' Owing to Mlle de Guise's love for Italian music (a passion she shared with Du Bois), and her frequent entertaining of Italians passing through Paris, there was little reason for Charpentier to conceal the Italianisms he had learned in Rome. During his years of service to Mlle de Guise, Charpentier also composed for "Mme de Guise",
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's first cousin. It was in large part owing to Mme de Guise's protection that the Guise musicians were permitted to perform Charpentier's chamber operas in defiance of the monopoly held by Jean Baptiste Lully. Most of the operas and ''pastorales'' in French, which date from 1684 to 1687, appear to have been commissioned by Mme de Guise for performance at court entertainments during the winter season; but Mlle de Guise doubtlessly included them in the entertainments she sponsored several times a week in her palatial Parisian residence. By late 1687, Mlle de Guise was dying. Around that time, Charpentier entered the employ of the
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. Indeed, he is not named in the princess's will of March 1688, nor in the papers of her estate, which is strong evidence that she had already rewarded her loyal servant and approved of his departure. During his seventeen-odd years at the Hôtel de Guise, Charpentier had written almost as many pages of music for outside commissions as he had for Mlle de Guise. (He routinely copied these outside commissions in notebooks with Roman numerals.) For example, after
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's falling out with
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in 1672, Charpentier had begun writing incidental music for the spoken theater of Molière. It probably was owing to pressure on Molière exerted by Mlle de Guise and by young
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that the playwright took the commission for incidental music for ''Le Malade imaginaire'' away from
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and gave it to Charpentier. After Molière's death in 1673, Charpentier continued to write for the playwright's successors, Thomas Corneille and
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. Play after play, he would compose pieces that demanded more musicians than the number authorized by Lully's monopoly over theatrical music. By 1685, the troop ceased flouting these restrictions. Their capitulation ended Charpentier's career as a composer for the spoken theater. In 1679, Charpentier had been singled out to compose for Louis XIV's son, the Dauphin. Writing primarily for the prince's private chapel, he composed devotional pieces for a small ensemble composed of royal musicians: the two Pièche sisters singing with a bass named Frizon, and instruments played by the two Pièche brothers. In short, an ensemble that, with Mlle de Guise's permission, could perform works he had earlier composed for the Guises. By early 1683, when he was awarded a royal pension, Charpentier was being commissioned to write for court events such as the annual Corpus Christi procession. In April of that year, he became so ill that he had to withdraw from the competition for the sub-mastership of the royal chapel. Speculations that he withdrew because he knew he would not win seem disproved by his autograph notebooks: he wrote nothing at all from April through mid-August of that year, strong evidence that he was too ill to work. From late 1687 to early 1698, Charpentier served as ''maître de musique'' (music master) to the Jesuits, working first for their ''collège'' of Louis-le-Grand (for which he wrote ''Celse martyr'', ''
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'' and where he was still employed in April 1691) and then for the church of Saint-Louis adjacent to the order's professed house on the rue Saint-Antoine. Once he moved to Saint-Louis, Charpentier virtually ceased writing oratorios and instead primarily wrote musical settings of psalms and other liturgical texts such as the Litanies of Loreto. During his years at Saint-Louis, his works tended to be for large ensembles that included paid singers from the Royal Opera. In addition, during these years Charpentier succeeded Étienne Loulié as music teacher to Philippe, Duke of Chartres. Charpentier was appointed ''maître de musique'' for the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in 1698, a royal post he held until his death in 1704. One of his most famous compositions during his tenure was the Mass ''Assumpta Est Maria'' (H. 11). That this work survived suggests that it was written for another entity, an entity that was entitled to call upon the musicians of the Chapel and reward them for their efforts. Indeed, virtually none of Charpentier's compositions from 1690 to 1704 have survived, because when the ''maître de musique'' died, the royal administration routinely confiscated everything he had written for the Chapel. Charpentier died at Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, and was buried in the little walled-in cemetery just behind the choir of the chapel. (The cemetery no longer exists.) In 1727, Charpentier's heirs sold his autograph manuscripts (28 folio volumes) to the Royal Library, today the
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. Commonly known as the ''Mélanges'', or ''Meslanges'', and now available as facsimiles published by Minkoff-France, these manuscripts were divided by Charpentier himself into two series of notebooks – one bearing Arabic numbers and the other Roman numbers, and each notebook numbered chronologically. These manuscripts (and their watermarks) have permitted scholars not only to date his compositions but also to determine the events for which many of these works were written.


Music, style and influence

His compositions include
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s,
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es,
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s,
leçons de ténèbres Leçons de ténèbres ( 'lessons of darkness'; sometimes spelled Leçons des ténèbres) is a genre of French Baroque music which developed from the polyphonic lamentations settings for the tenebrae service of Renaissance composers such as Sermis ...
,
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s and numerous smaller pieces that are difficult to categorize. Many of his smaller works for one or two voices and instruments resemble the Italian cantata of the time, and share most features except for the name: Charpentier calls them ''airs sérieux'' or ''
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'' if they are in French, but ''cantata'' if they are in Italian. Not only did Charpentier compose during that "transitory period" so important to the "evolution of musical language, where the modality of the ancients and the emerging tonal harmony coexisted and mutually enriched one another" ( Catherine Cessac, ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier'', 2004 edition, p. 464), but he also was a respected theoretician. In the early 1680s he was analyzing the harmony in a polychoral mass by the Roman composer
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(Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Réserve VM1 260, fol. 55–56). About 1691 he wrote a manual to be used for the musical training of Philippe d’Orléans, duke of Chartres; and about 1693 he expanded this manual. The two versions survive as copies in the hand of Étienne Loulié, Charpentier's colleague, who called them ''Règles de Composition par Monsieur Charpentier'' and ''Augmentations tirées de l’original de Mr le duc de Chartres'' (Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. n.a. fr. 6355, fols. 1–16). On a blank page of the ''Augmentations'', Loulié in addition listed some of the points that Charpentier made in a treatise that Loulié called ''Règles de l’accompagnement de Mr Charpentier''. Three theoretical works long known to scholars exist, but did not reveal much about Charpentier's evolution as a theoretician. Then, in November 2009, a fourth treatise, this time in Charpentier's own hand, was identified in the collection of the
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at Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. Written during the final months of 1698 and numbered "XLI," this treatise appears to have been the forty-first in a series hitherto not imagined by Charpentier scholars, a series of theoretical treatises that spans almost two decades, from the early 1680s to 1698.


Modern significance

The prelude to his
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, H.146, a rondo, is the signature tune for the
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, heard in the opening credits of
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events. This theme was also the intro to ''The Olympiad'' films of
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.


Charpentier's works

Charpentier's compositions were catalogued by
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in his ''Les œuvres de Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Catalogue Raisonné,'' (Paris: Picard, 1982); references to works are often accompanied by their H (for Hitchcock) number. The following lists (554 H) show the entire production in each genre.


Sacred vocal works


Masses (12)

* ''Messe,'' H.1 (? 1670) * '' Messe pour les Trépassés à 8'', H.2 (? 1670) * ''Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes'', H.3 (? 1670) * ''Messe à quatre chœurs'', H.4 (? 1670) * ''Messe pour le
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'', H.5 (? 1680) * ''Messe à 4 voix, 4 violons, 2 flûtes et 2 hautbois pour Mr Mauroy'', H.6 (? 1690) * ''Messe des morts'' à quatre voix, H.7, H.7 a (? 1690) * ''Messe pour le samedi de Pâques à 4 voix'' H.8 (? 1690) * '' Messe de minuit pour Noël'' à 4 voix, flûtes, et violons, H.9 (?1690 ) * ''Messe des morts à 4 voix et symphonie'', H.10 (? 1690) * ''Assumpta est Maria: Missa sex vocibus cum simphonia,'' H.11, H.11a (1702) * ''Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues,'' (see instrumental music)


Other liturgical works


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= * '' Prose des morts,'' H.12 * '' Prose pour le jour de Pâques,'' H.13 * ''Prose du Saint Sacrement,'' H.14 * '' Stabat Mater pour des religieuses,'' H.15


= Antiphons (37)

= * ''Antienne,'' ''"Regina caeli"'' H.16 * ''Autre antienne,'' ''"Veni sponsa Christi"'' H.17 * ''Salve Regina,'' H.18 * ''Ave Regina coelorum,'' H.19 * ''Sub tuum praesidium,'' H.20 * ''
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,'' H.21 * ''
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,'' H.22 * ''Salve Regina à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.23 * ''Prélude pour Salve Regina à 3,'' H.23 a * '' Salve Regina à 3 choeurs,'' H.24 * ''Antiphona in honorem Beatae Virginis, "Beata es Maria"'' H.25 * ''Antienne,'' H.26 * ''Salve Regina des Jésuites,'' H.27 * ''Antiphona sine organo ad Virginem,'' H.28 * ''Antiphona in honorem beate Genovefae / voce sola,'' H.29 * ''Antienne,'' H.30 * ''Regina coeli voce sola cum (? flauti),'' H.31 * ''Antienne à la vierge à 2 dessus,'' ''"Regina caeli"'' H.32 * ''
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par Charpentier,'' H.32 a * ''Troisième Regina coeli à 2 dessus,'' H.32 b * 33–35 ''cycle d'Antiennes pour les vêpres d'un confesseur non pontife:'' ** ''Première antienne pour les vêpres d'un confesseur non pontife,'' H.33 ** ''Troisième antienne pour les vêpres d'un confesseur non pontife,'' H.34 ** ''Cinquième antienne pour les vêpres d'un confesseur non pontife,'' H.35 * 36–43 ''Salut de la veille des Ô et les sept Ô suivant le romain:'' ** ''Salut pour la veille des Ö,'' H.36 ** ''Premier Ô,'' H.37 ** ''Second Ô,'' H.38 ** ''Troisième Ô,'' H.39 ** ''Quatrième Ô,'' H.40 ** ''Cinquième Ô,'' H.41 ** ''Sixième Ô,'' H.42 ** ''Septième Ô,'' H.43 * 44–47 ''cycle d'Antiennes à la Vierge Marie pour l'année liturgique:'' ** ''Antienne à la Vierge depuis les vêpres du samedi de devant le premier dimanche de l'Avant jusqu'aux complies du jour de la Purification inclusivement / Alma Redemptoris à Quatre voix et deux violons,'' H.44 ** ''Antienne à la Vierge depuis le lendemain de la purification jusqu'aux vêpres du Jeudi saint exclusivement / Ave regina coelorum à quatre voix et deux dessus de violon,'' H.45 ** ''Antienne à la Vierge depuis les complies du samedi saint jusqu'à none inclusivement du premier samedi d'après la Pentecôte / Regina coeli à quatre voix et deux dessus de violon,'' H.46 ** ''Antienne à la Vierge depuis les vêpres de la veille de la Trinité jusqu'à none du samedi devant le premier dimanche de l'Avant/ Salve regina à quatre voix et deux violons,'' H.47 * ''Antienne à la Vierge pour toutes les saisons de l'année / Inviolata reformé,'' H.48 * ''Antienne à 3 voix pareilles pour la veille des Ô,'' H.49 * 50–52 ''Antienne pour les vêpres de l'Assomption de la Vierge'': ** ''Après Dixit Dominus,'' H.50 ** ''Pour les mêmes vêpres / Antienne après Laetatus sum,'' H.51 ** ''Antienne pour les mêmes vêpres après Lauda Jerusalem Dominum,'' H.52


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es (19)

= * ''Jesu corona Virginum: hymne au commun des vierges à deux dessus et une flûte,'' H.53 * ''Hymne du Saint Esprit à trois voix pareilles avec symphonie et choeur si l'on veut,'' H.54 * ''55–57 In Sanctum Nicasium Rothomagensem Archie piscopum et Martyrem:'' ** ''Hymnus ad Vesperas,'' H.55 ** ''Hymnus in eundem at matutinem,'' H.56 ** ''In eundem ad laudes,'' H.57 * '' Pange lingua,'' H.58 * ''Gaudia Virginis Mariae,'' H.59 * ''Hymne pour toutes les fêtes de la Vierge,'' H.60 * ''Pour un reposoir / Pange flingua,'' H.61 * '' Pange flingua pour des religieuses / Pour le Port Royal,'' H.62 * ''Hymne à la Vierge,'' ''"Ave maris stella"'' H.63 * ''Hymne du Saint Sacrement,'' H.64 * ''Ave maris stella,'' H.65 * ''Hymne du Saint Esprit / Veni Creator,'' H.66 * '' Ave maris stella,'' H.67 * ''Pange lingua à 4 voix pour le Jeudi saint,'' H.68 * '' Veni Creator pour un dessus seul au catéchisme,'' H.69 * ''
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pour un dessus seul pour le catéchisme,'' H.70 * ''Iste Confessor,'' H.71


= Magnificat settings (10)

= * ''Magnificat,'' H.72 * ''Magnificat,'' H.73 * ''Magnificat à 8 voix et 8 instruments,'' H.74 * ''Magnificat à 3 dessus,'' H.75 * ''Canticum B.V.M.'' H.76 * ''Prélude pour le premier Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments,'' H.76 a * ''Magnificat,'' H.77 * ''Magnificat,'' H.78 * ''Troisième Magnificat à 4 voix avec instruments,'' H.79 * ''Magnificat,'' H.80 * ''Magnificat pour le
Port Royal Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and ...
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= Litany of Loreto settings (9)

= * ''Litanies de la Vierge à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.82 * ''Litanies de la Vierge à 6 voix et deux dessus de viole,'' H.83 * ''Litanies de la Vierge à 3 voix pareilles avec instruments,'' H.84 * ''Litanies de la Vierge,'' H.85 * ''Litanies de la Vierge à deux dessus et une basse chantante,'' H.86 * ''Litanies de la vierge à 4 voix,'' H.87 * ''Litanies de la Vierge à 4 voix,'' H.88 * ''Litanies de la Vierge,'' H.89 * ''Courtes Litanies de la Vierge à 4 voix,'' H.90


= Tenebrae lessons and responsories (54)

= * ''Leçon de ténèbres,'' H.91 * ''Autre leçon de ténèbres / Troisième du Mercredi saint,'' H.92 * ''Autre leçon de ténèbres / 3ème du Jeudi saint,'' H.93 * ''Autre Jerusalem pour les leçons de ténèbres à 2 voix / pour la la seconde du Jeudi saint,'' H.94 * ''Troisième leçon du Vendredi Saint,'' H.95 * 96–110 ''Les neuf leçons de ténèbres'': ** ''Première leçon du Mercredi saint,'' H.96 ** ''Seconde leçon du Mercredi saint,'' H.97 ** ''Troisième leçon de Mercredi saint,'' H.98 ** ''Lettres hébraïques de la première leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint,'' H.99 *** ''Première lettre,'' H.99 a *** ''Seconde lettre,'' H.99 b *** ''Troisième lettre,'' H.99 c ** ''Ritournelles pour la première leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint,'' H.100 : *** ''Prélude devant De lamentatione pour le Jeudi et le Vendredi saint,'' H.100 a *** ''Misericordiae Domini tacet / Ritournelles après miserationes jus,'' H.100 b *** ''Les violes / Novi dilucolo tacet / Ritournelles après fides tua,'' H.100 c ***''Ritournelles pour la première leçon du vendredi,'' H.100 d ***''Ritournelles pour la première leçon du vendredi,'' H.100 e ***''Ritournelles pour la première leçon du vendredi,'' H.100 f ***''Ritournelles pour la première leçon du vendredi,'' H.100 g ** ''Prélude pour la première leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint,'' H.101 ** ''Première leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint,'' H.102 ** ''Seconde leçon du Jeudi Saint,'' H.103 ** ''Troisième leçon du Jeudi saint,'' H.104 ** ''Première leçon du Vendredi saint,'' H.105 **''Première leçon du Vendredi saint'' (transposée en Sol Majeur), H.105 **''Seconde leçon du Vendredi saint,'' H.106 ** ''Seconde leçon du Jeudi saint à voix seule,'' H.107 ** ''Troisième leçon du Mercredi à trois parties,'' H.108 ** ''Troisième leçon du Jeudi saint à 3 voix,'' H.109 ** ''Troisième leçon du Vendredi saint,'' H.110 * 111–119 ''Les neuf répons de chaque jour / Les neuf répons du Mercredi saint:'' ** ''Premier répons après la première leçon du premier nocturne,'' H.111 ** ''Second répons après le seconde leçon du premier nocturne,'' H.112 ** ''Troisième répons après la troisième leçon du premier nocturne,'' H.113 ** ''Quatrième répons après la première leçon du second nocturne,'' H.114 ** ''Cinquième répons après la seconde leçon du second nocturne,'' H.115 ** ''Sixième répons après la troisième leçon du second nocturne,'' H.116 ** ''Septième répons après la première leçon du troisième nocturne,'' H.117 ** ''Huitième répons après la seconde leçon du troisième nocturne,'' H.118 ** ''Neuvième répons après la troisième leçon du troisième nocturne du Mercredi saint,'' H.119 * 120–122 ''Leçons de ténèbres:'' **''Première leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint pour une basse,'' H.120 **''Première leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint pour une basse,'' H.121 ** ''Première leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint pour une basse,'' H.122 * 123–125 ''Leçons de ténèbres:'' ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint pour une basse taille avec 2 flûtes et deux violons,'' H.123 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint pour une basse taille avec 2 flûtes et 2 violons,'' H.124 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint pour une basse taille avec 2 flûtes et deux violons,'' H.125 * ''Second répons après la seconde leçon du premier nocturne du Mercredi saint,'' H.126 * ''Premier répons après la première leçon du second nocturne du Jeudi saint,'' H.127 * ''Second répons après la seconde leçon du premier nocturne du Jeudi saint,'' H.128 * ''Second répons après la seconde leçon du second nocturne du Jeudi Saint,'' H.129 * ''Second répons après la seconde leçon du premier nocturne de Vendredi saint,'' H.130 * ''Troisième répons après la 3ème leçon du second nocturne du Vendredi saint,'' H.131 * ''Troisième répons après la troisième leçon du second nocturne du Mercredi saint,'' H.132 * ''Premier répons après la première leçon du second nocturne du Jeudi saint,'' H.133 * ''Second répons après la seconde leçon du second nocturne du Vendredi saint,'' H.134 * 135–137 ''Leçons de ténèbres:'' ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint,'' H.135 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint,'' H.136 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint,'' H.137 * 138–140 ''Leçons de ténèbres:'' ** ''Seconde leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint,'' H.138 ** ''Seconde leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint,'' H.139 ** ''Seconde leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint,'' H.140 * 141–143 ''Leçons de ténèbres:'' ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Mercredi saint pour une basse,'' H.141 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint pour une basse,'' H.142 ** ''Troisième leçon de ténèbres du Vendredi saint pour une basse,'' H.143 * ''Répons après la première leçon de ténèbres du Jeudi saint pour une haute taille et 2 flûtes,'' H.144


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Te Deum The "Te Deum" (, ; from its incipit, , ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin Ch ...
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Te Deum The "Te Deum" (, ; from its incipit, , ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin Ch ...
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Te Deum The "Te Deum" (, ; from its incipit, , ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin Ch ...
,'' H.146 (1690) * ''Te Deum à 4 voix,'' H.147 (1690) *''Te Deum à 4 voix,'' H.148 (1698–99) *''Te Deum'' (lost) *''Te Deum'' (lost)


Psalms The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived ...
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* ''Psaume 112,'' H.149 * ''Paume 126,'' H.150 * '' Confitebor à 4 voix et 2 violons,'' H.151 * ''Psaume 116,'' H.152 * '' Psaume 109,'' H.153 * ''Psaume 111,'' H.154 * ''Psaume 131,'' H.155 * '' De profundis,'' H.156 * ''Miserere à 2 dessus, 2 flûtes, et basse continue,'' H.157 * ''Psalmus David,'' H.158 * ''Psaume 116,'' H.159 * ''Psalmus 2 us 6 us supra centisium à 4 voix "Nisi Dominus",'' H.160 * ''Prélude pour Nisi Dominum à 4 voix sans instruments,'' H.160 a * ''Psalmus David vigesimus primus post centesimum,'' H.161 * ''Exaudiat à 8 voix, flûtes et violons,'' H.162 * '' Psalmus David VIII,'' H.163 * ''Prière pour le Roi,'' H.164 * ''Precacio pro Rege,'' H.165 * ''Precacio pro Filio Regis,'' H.166 * '' Quam dilecta: Psalmus David octogésimus tertius,'' H.167 * ''Psalmus David 5 us (recte 2 us) in tempore belli pro Rege,'' H.168 * ''Prélude pour quatre fremuerunt ventes à 8 voix,'' H.168 a * ''Psalmus David 125 us,'' H.169 * ''Psalmus David centesimus trigesimus sextus: Super flumina Babylonis,'' H.170 * '' Super flumina / Psalmus 136 octo vocibus cum instrumentis,'' H.171 * ''Prélude pour Super flumina,'' H.171 a * ''Psalmus 3 us,'' H.172 * '' Miserere à deux voix, une haute-contre et basse continue,'' H.173 * ''Psaume 41,'' H.174 * ''Psaume 1,'' H.175 * ''Psaume 97,'' H.176 * ''Psaume 148,'' H.177 * '' Psalmus Davidis centisemus vigesimus septimus,'' H.178 * ''Psalmus David septuagesimus quints,'' H.179 * ''Exaudiat pour le Roi à 4,'' H.180 * ''Premier prélude pour l'Exaudiat à 4 voix sans instruments D la re sol à 2 violons,'' H.180 a * ''Second prélude à 4 violons pour le même Exaudiat,'' H.180 b * '' Psalmus David octogesimus quartus,'' H.181 * ''Psalmus David centesimus sexdecimus sine organo,'' H.182 * ''Psalmus David 107,'' H.183 * ''Psalmus David, 5 us (recte 2 dus),'' H.184 * ''Psalmus David nonagesimus primus,'' H.185 * ''Psalmus David octogesimus tertius,'' H.186 * ''Psalmus 86,'' H.187 * ''Psalmus 62,'' H.188 * '' De profundis,'' H.189 * ''Psalmus 109 us: Dixit Dominus à 8 vocibus et todidem instrumentis,'' H.190 * ''Psalmus 147,'' H.191 * '' Psaume 46,'' H.192 * ''Psalmus David 50 mus / Miserere des Jésuites,'' H.193 * ''Prélude pour le Miserere à 6 voix et instruments,'' H.193 a * ''Psalmus David nonagesimus 9 nus,'' H.194 * ''Bonum est confiteri Domino / Psalmus David 91 us,'' H.195 * ''Psalmus David 12 us,'' H.196 * ''Psalmus David 109 us,'' H.197 * ''Prélude pour le premier Dixit Dominus en petit en G re sol bémol,'' H.197 a * '' Psalmus David 4 us,'' H.198 * ''Psalmus David Centesimus Undecimus, "Beatus vir"'' H.199 * ''Prélude pour le premier Beatus vir à 4 voix,'' H.199 a * ''Psaume 110 e: " Confitebor tibi",'' H.200 * ''Prélude pour le premier Confitebor à 4 voix sans instruments,'' H.200 a * ''Psalmus David 34 us,'' H.201 * '' Dixit Dominus: Psalmus David 109 us,'' H.202 * ''Dixit Dominus: Psalmus David 109 / Prélude,'' H.202 a * ''Psalmus supra centesimum duodecimus, "Laudate pueri"'' H.203 * ''Prélude pour Laudate pueri Dominum à 4 voix sans instruments en G re sol naturel,'' H.203 a * ''Psaume 109,'' H.204 * ''Gloria Patri pour le De profundis en C sol ut bémol à quatre voix, 4 violons et flûtes,'' H.205 * ''Psalmus David 5 us post septuagesimum,'' H.206 * ''Psalmus Davidis post octogesimum septimus,'' H.207 * ''Psalmus undecimus Davidis post centesimum: Beatus vir qui timet Dominum 4 vocibus cum symphonia,'' H.208 * '' Psalmus David 115 us,'' "Credidi propter" H.209 * ''Prélude pour Credidi à 4 voix sans instruments en sol ut,'' H.209 a * ''Lauda Jerusalem: Psalmus David 147 us,'' H.210 * ''Psalmus Davidis vigesimus nonus super centesimum / De profundis à quatre voix,'' H.211 * ''Psalmus David 120 us quatuor vocibus,'' H.212 * '' De profundis,'' H.213 * ''De profundis,'' H.213 a * ''Psalmus Davidis decimus sextus post centesimum,'' H.214 * '' Psalmus David 67 us,'' H.215 * ''Psalmus Davidis CXXI us,'' H.216 * '' Psalmus 123 us,'' H.217 * '' Psalmus David 45 us,'' H.218 * ''Miserere Psalmus 50 à 4 voix et 4 instruments,'' H.219 * '' Psalmus David 110 us à 4 voix,'' ''"Confitebor tibi Domine"'' H.220 * ''Psalmus David 111 à 4 voix, "Beatus vir"'' H.221 * ''Court De profundis à 4 voix,'' H.222 * ''Laudate Dominum omnes gentes octo vocibus et totidem instrumentis,'' H.223 * ''
Beatus vir Beatus vir (; "Blessed is the man...") are the first words in the Latin Vulgate Bible of both Psalm 1 and Psalm 112 (in the general modern numbering; it is Psalm 111 in the Greek Septuagint and the Vulgate). In each case, the words are used to ...
qui timet Dominum 8 vocibus et totidem instrumentis,'' H.224 * ''Confitebor à 4 voix et instruments,'' H.225 * '' Dixit Dominus pour le
Port Royal Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and ...
,'' H.226 * '' Laudate Dominum omnes gentes pour le
Port Royal Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and ...
,'' H.227 * '' Psalmus David LXX: 3e psaume (sic) du 1er nocturne du Mercredi saint,'' H.228 * '' Psalmus David 26 tus: 3e psaume (sic) du 1er nocturne du Jeudi saint,'' H.229 * '' Psalmus David 15 us: 3e psaume (sic) du 1er nocturne du Vendredi saint,'' H.230 * ''Psaume 126,'' H.231 * '' De profundis,'' H.232


Motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Ma ...
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= Elevation motets (48)

= * '' Elévation,'' ''"Ave verum corpus"'' H.233 (? 1670) * '' Elévation,''.H.234 ''(? 1670)'' * ''O sacrum convivium à 3 dessus: Elevatio,'' H.235 ''(? 1670)'' * ''Elévation,'' H.236 ''(? 1670)'' * ''Elévation pour la paix,'' H.237 (?1670) * ''Prélude en A pour O Bone Jesu à 3 voix pareilles pour la paix,'' H.237 a * ''Elévation,'' H.238 (? 1670) * ''O sacrum à trois,'' H.239 * ''
O sacrum convivium "O sacrum convivium" is a Latin prose text honoring the Blessed Sacrament. It is included as an antiphon to Magnificat in the vespers of the liturgical office on the feast of Corpus Christi. The text of the office is attributed with some probabili ...
de Charpentier pars,'' H.239 a (1670) * ''O sacrum pour trois religieuses,'' H.240 * ''Elévation,'' H.241 * ''Ecce panis voce sola / Elévation,'' H.242 * '' Panis angelicus voce sola / Elévation,'' H.243 * ''Elévation à 2 dessus et une basse chantante,'' H.244 * ''Elévation,'' H.245 * ''Elévation,'' H.246 * ''Elévation,'' H.247 * '' Elévation, H 248'' * ''Elévation,'' H.249 * ''Elévation,'' H.250 * '' Elévation à 5 sans dessus de violon,'' ''"Transfige dulcissime Jesu"'' H.251 * ''Elévation,'' H.252 * ''O amor: Elévation à 2 dessus et une basse chantante ou pour une haute contre, taille et basse chantante en le transposant un ton plus haut,'' H.253 * ''Prélude pour O amor à 3 violons,'' H.253 a * ''Elévation, "O pretiosum et admirabile convivium"'' H.254 * ''Elévation,'' H.255 * ''Elévation à 3 dessus,'' H.256 * ''Elevation,'' "''Gustate et videte''" H.257 * ''Elevation,'' ''"Nonne Deo subjecta erit"'' H.258 * ''Elévation,'' H.259 * ''Elevation.'' H.260 * '' O salutaris à 3 dessus,'' H.261 * ''O salutaris,'' H.262 * ''Elévation,'' H.263 * ''Elévation au Saint Sacrement,'' H.264 * ''Elévation à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.264 a * ''Elévation,'' H.265 * '' Elévation,'' H.266 * ''Elévation,'' H.267 * ''Elévation à voix seule pour une taille,'' H.268 * ''A l'elévation de la sainte hostie,'' H.269 * ''Pour le Saint Sacrement à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.270 * ''Pour le Saint Sacrement à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.271 * ''Elévation à 2 dessus et une basse,'' H.272 * ''Elévation,'' H.273 * ''Elévation,'' H.274 * ''Elévation,'' H.275 * ''Elévation,'' H.276 * ''Elévation, "Cantemus Domino"'' H.277 * ''Motet du Saint Sacrement à 4 / Charpentier,'' H.278 * ''Motet à voix seule pour une Elévation,'' H.279 * ''Motet du Saint Sacrement,'' H.280


= " Domine salvum" motets (25)

= * ''Domine salvum,'' H.281 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.282 * ''...Domine salvum de la messe à 8,'' H.283 * ''Domine salvum à 3 voix pareilles avec orgue'', H.284 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.285 * ''Domine Salvum,'' H.286 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.287 * ''Domine salvum pour trois religieuses,'' H.288 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.289 * ''Domine salvum sine organo en C sol ut,'' H.290 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.291 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.292 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.293 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.294 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.295 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.296 * ''Domine salvum pour un haut et un bas dessus,'' H.297 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.298 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.299 * ''Domine salvum à 3 dessus,'' H.300 * ''Domine salvum à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.301 * ''Domine salvum à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.302 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.303 * ''Domine salvum,'' H.304 * ''Motet,'' "''Domine salvum fac regem''" H.305


= Occasional motets (85)

= * ''Pour St Bernard,'' ''"Gaudete fideles"'' H.306 * ''Pour St Augustin,'' ''"O doctor optime"'' H.307 * '' Pour Pâques,'' ''"Haec dies quam fecit"'' H.308 * ''Nativité de la Vierge,'' ''"Sicut spina rosam"'' H.309 * ''St François,'' ''"Jubilate Deo fideles"'' H.310 * '' Motet pour les trépassés à 8 / Plainte des âmes du purgatoire,'' H.311 * '' O filii à 3 voix pareilles,'' H.312 * ''Pour la conception de la Vierge, "Conceptio tua Dei genitrix"'' H.313 * ''In nativitatem Domini canticum,'' H.314 * ''Pour Ste Anne,'' "Gaude felix Anna" H.315 * ''In circumcisione Domini,'' H.316 * '' Pour le jour de Ste Geneviève,'' H.317 * ''In festo purificationis,'' H.318 * ''Motet pour la Trinité,'' H.319 * ''Motet de St Louis,'' H.320 * '' Motet de St Laurent,'' H.321 * ''Motet de la Vierge pour toutes ses fêtes,'' H.322 * ''In honorem santi Ludovici Regis Galliae canticum tribus vocibus cum symphonia,'' H.323 * ''In nomine Jesu,'' H.324 * '' Canticum Annae,'' H.325 * ''Graciarum actiones ex sacris codicibus excerptae pro restituta serenissimi Galliarum Delphini salute,'' H.326 * ''Motet pour toutes les fêtes de la Vierge,'' H.327 * ''Supplicacio pro defunctis ad beatam Virginem,'' H.328 * ''Pour un reposoir,'' H.329 * ''Gaudia beatae Virginis Mariae,'' H.330 * '' Luctus de morte augustissimae Mariae Theresiae reginae Galliae,'' H.331 * ''In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae,'' H.332 * ''Pro omnibus festis B.V.M.'' H.333 * ''Motet pour la Vierge, "''Alma Dei creatoris" H.334 * 335–338 ''Quatuor Anni Tempestates:'' ** ''Ver,'' H.335 ** ''Aestas,'' H.336 ** ''Prélude pour l'été 3 flûtes,'' H.336 a ** ''Autumnus,'' H.337 ** ''Hyems,'' H.338 * '' Chant joyeux de Pâques,'' H.339 * ''Ad beatam Virginem canticum,'' H.340 * ''Gratiarum actiones pro restituta Regis christianissimi sanitate anno 1686,'' H.341 * '' Ste Thérèse,'' H.342 * ''Magdalena lugens voce sola cum symphonia,'' H.343 * ''Magdalena Lugens,'' H.343 a * ''In festo corporis Christi canticum,'' H.344 * '' Canticum Zachariae,'' H.345 * ''Pour le Saint Sacrement au reposoir,'' H.346 * ''In honorem Sti Benediti,'' "Exultet omnium" H.347 * ''Motet du Saint Sacrement pour un reposoir,'' H.348 * 349–351 ''Pour la Passion de Notre Seigneur:'' ** ''Première pause,'' ''"O crux ave"'' H.349 ** ''Seconde pause,'' ''"Popule meus"'' H.350 ** ''Pour le jour de la Passion de Notre Seigneur,'' H.351 * ''Second motet pour le catéchisme à la pause du milieu / à la Vierge,'' H.352 * ''In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis,'' H.353 * '' Motet pour St François de Borgia,'' H.354 * '' In honorem Sancti Xaverij canticum,'' H.355 * ''Canticum de Sto Xaverio,'' H.355 a * '' O filii pour les voix, violons, flûtes et orgue,'' H.356 * ''In purificationem B. V. M canticum, "Psallite caelites"'' H.357 * ''In festo corporis Christi canticum,'' H.358 * ''Motet pour la Vierge à 2 voix, "Omni die hic Mariae"'' H.359 * ''Pour la Vierge, "Felix namque es"'' H.360 * ''Pour plusieurs martyrs / motet à voix seule sans accompagnement,'' H.361 * ''Pour le Saint Esprit,'' H.362 * ''Motet pendant la guerre,'' H.363 * ''Pour le Saint Esprit,'' H.364 * ''Pour Le Saint Esprit,'' H.364 a * ''In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae canticum,'' H.365 * ''In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae canticum,'' H.365 a * ''Pour le Saint Esprit,'' H.366 * ''La prière à la vierge du père Bernard,'' H.367 * '' Motet de St Joseph,'' H.368 * ''Pro virginie non martyre,'' H.369 * ''Pour le catéchisme, "Gloria in excelsis Deo"'' H.370 * ''A la Vierge à 4 voix pareilles,'' H.371 * ''Pour la seconde fois que le Saint Sacrement vient au même reposoir,'' H.372 * ''Pour Marie Madeleine, "Sola vivebat in antris"'' H.373 * ''Pour Ste Thérèse, "Flores o Gallia"'' H.374 * ''Pour un confesseur non pontife, "Euge serve bone"'' H.375 * ''Pour un confesseur,'' H.376 * ''Pour tous les saints,'' H.377 * ''Pour le Carême,'' H.378 * ''Pour plusieurs fêtes,'' H.379 * 380–389 ''Méditations pour le Carême:'' ** ''Première méditation,'' H.380 ** ''Deuxième méditation,'' H.381 ** ''Troisième méditation,'' H.382 ** ''Quatrième méditation,'' H.383 ** ''Cinquième méditation,'' H.384 ** ''Sixième méditation,'' H.385 ** ''Septième méditation,'' H.386 ** ''Huitième méditation,'' H.387 ** ''Neuvième méditation: Magdalena lugens,'' H.388 ** ''Dixième méditation,'' H.389 * ''Motet de la Vierge à 4,'' H.390


= Dramatic motets (

oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is ...
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= * '' Judith sive Bethulia liberata,'' H.391 (1675) * ''Canticum pro pace,'' H.392 (1675–76) * '' Canticum in nativitatem,'' H.393 (1675–76) * ''In honorem Caelia, Valeriani et Tiburtij canticum,'' H.394 (1676) * ''Pour la fête de l'Epiphanie,'' H.395 (1677) * ''Historia Esther,'' H.396 (1677) * ''Caecilia virgo et martyr octo vocibus,'' H.397 (1683–85) * '' Pestis Mediolanensis,'' H.398 (1679) * ''Prélude pour Horrenda pestis,'' H.398 a (1680–83) * '' Filius prodigus,'' H.399 (1680) * ''Prélude pour l'Enfant prodigue,'' H.399 a (1680–83) * ''Canticum in honorem Beatae Virginis Mariae inter homines et angelos...'' H.400 (1680) * '' Extremum Dei judicium,'' H.401 (Jugement dernier) (1680) * '' Sacrificium Abrahae,'' H.402 (1681–83/92) * ''Symphonies ajustées au sacrifice d'Abraham,'' H.402 a (1680–83) * ''Mors Saülis et Jonathae,'' H.403 (1681–82) * '' Josue,'' H.404 (1681–82) * ''Prélude,'' H.404 a (fin 1680–83) * ''In resurrectione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi,'' H.405 (1682) * ''In circumcisione Domini / Dialogus inter angelum et pastores,'' H.406 (fin 1683) * ''Dialogus inter esurientem et Christum,'' H.407 (1682–83) * ''Elévation,'' H.408 (fin 1683) * '' In obitum augustissimae nec non piissimae Gallorum regina lamentum,'' H.409 (1683) * ''Praelium Michaelis Archangeli factum in coelo cum dracone,'' H.410 (fin 1683) * '' Caedes sanctorum innocentium,'' H.411 (1683–84) * ''Nuptiae sacrae,'' H.412 (1684) * '' Caecilia virgo et martyr,'' H.413 (1684) * ''In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum,'' H.414 (1684) * '' Caecilia virgo et martyr,'' H.415 (1685) * ''Prologue de la Ste Cécile,'' H.415 a (1686) * ''In nativitatem Domini canticum,'' H.416 (1690) * ''Dialogus inter Christum et homines,'' H.417 (1692) * '' In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae,'' H.418 (1692–93) * ''Pour St Augustin mourant,'' H.419 (1687) * ''Dialogus inter angelos et pastores Judeae,'' H.420 (1687) * '' In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum,'' H.421 (1698) * '' Judicium Salomonis,'' H.422 (1702) * '' Dialogus inter Magdalena et Jesum 2 vocibus Canto et Alto cum organo,'' H.423 (?) * '' Le Reniement de St Pierre,'' H.424 (?) * ''Dialogus inter Christum et peccatores,'' H.425 (?) * ''Prélude pour Mementote peccatores,'' H.425 a (1685–86)


= Miscellaneous motets (14)

= * ''"Quae est ista",'' H.426 * ''Pie Jesu,'' H.427 * (no name)'','' H.428, H.429, H.430 * ''Gratitudinis erga Deum canticum,'' H.431 * ''Offertoire pour le sacre d'un évêque à 4 parties de voix et d'instruments,'' H 432 * ''Domine non secundum pour une basse taille avec 2 violons,'' H.433 * ''Motet pour une longue offrande / Motet pour l'offertoire de la Messe Rouge,'' H.434 * ''(no name),'' H.435, H.436, H.437, H.438 * ''Bone Pastor,'' H.439


Secular vocal works


Airs sérieux et à boire

* ''"A ta haute valeur",'' H.440 * ''"Ah! laissez moi rêver",'' H.441 * ''"Ah! qu'ils sont courts les beaux jours",'' H.442 * ''"Ah! qu'on est malheureux d'avoir eu des désirs",'' H.443 * ''"Au bord d'une fontaine",'' H.443 bis * ''"Allons sous ce vert feuillage",'' H.444 * ''"Amour vous avez beau redoubler mes alarmes",'' H.445 * ''"Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour",'' H.446 * ''"Ayant bu du vin clairet",'' H.447 * ''"Beaux petits yeux d'écarlate",'' H.448 * ''"Brillantes fleurs naissez",'' H.449 (
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) * ''"Feuillages verts naissez",'' H.449 a * ''"Charmantes fleurs naissez",'' H.449 b * ''"Printemps, vous renaissez",'' H.449 c * ''"Aimables fleurs naissez",'' H.449 d * ''"Climène sur ses bords",'' H.449 e * ''"Celle qui fait tout mon tourment",'' H.450 * ''"Consolez vous, chers enfants de Bacchus",'' H.451 * ''"En vain rivaux assidus",'' H.452 * ''"Faites trêve à vos chansonnettes",'' H.453 * ''"Fenchon, la gentille Fenchon",'' H.454 * ''"Il faut aimer, c'est un mal nécessaire",'' H.454 bis * ''"Non, non je ne l'aime plus",'' H.455 * ''"Oiseaux de ces bocages",'' H.456 * 457–459 ''Airs sur les stances du
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** ''"Percé jusqu'au fond du coeur",'' H.457 ** ''"Père, maitresse, honneur, amour",'' H.458 ** ''"Que je sens de rudes combats",'' H.459 * ''"Que Louis par sa vaillance",'' H.459 bis * ''"Qu'il est doux, charmante Climène",'' H.460 * ''"Deux beaux yeux un teint de jaunisse",'' H.460 a * ''"Le beau jour dit une bergère",'' H.460 b * ''"Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle",'' H.460 c (Emile Blamont) * ''"Quoi je ne verrai plus",'' H.461 * ''"Quoi rien ne peut vous arrêter?",'' H.462 * ''"Rendez moi mes plaisirs",'' H.463 * ''"Rentrez, trop indiscrets soupirs",'' H.464 * ''"Retirons nous, fuyons",'' H.465 * ''"Ruisseau qui nourrit dans ce bois",'' H.466 * ''"Sans frayeur dans ce bois",'' H.467 * ''"Tout renait, tout fleurit",'' H.468 * ''"Tristes déserts, sombre retraite",'' H.469 * ''"Veux tu, compère Grégoire",'' H.470 * ''"Si Claudine ma voisine",'' H.499 b * ''Airs italiens et français,'' (lost)


Cantatas (Italian, French and Latin)

* ''Orphée descendant aux enfers,'' H.471 * ''Serenata a tre voci e sinfonia,'' H.472 * ''Epithalamio in lode dell'Altezza serenissima Elettorale di Massimiliano Emanuel Duca di Baviera concento a cinque voci con stromenti,'' H.473 * ''Epitaphium Carpentarii,'' H.474 * ''Beate mie pene / Duo à doi canti del Signor Charpentier,'' H.475 * ''"Superbo amore",'' H.476 * ''"Il mondo cosi va",'' H.477 * '' Cantate française de M. Charpentier,'' H.478 * ''Le roi d'Assyrie mourant,'' (lost)


Theatrical works


Pastorales, divertissements and operas

* ''Petite pastorale,'' H.479 (= Jugement de Pan) * '' Les Plaisirs de Versailles,'' H.480 * '' Actéon'', Pastorale en musique, H.481 * ''Actéon changé en biche,'' H.481 a * ''Sur la naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ: Pastorale,'' H.482 * ''Pastorale sur la naissance de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ,'' H.483 * ''Seconde partie du noël français qui commence par "que nos soupirs",'' H.483 a * ''Seconde partie du noël français qui commence par "que nos soupirs, Seigneur",'' H.483 b * ''Il faut rire et chanter: dispute de bergers,'' H.484 * ''La Fête de Rueil,'' H.485 * ''La Fête de Rueil,'' H.485 a * ''La Couronne de fleurs'' , Pastorale, H.486 (1685) * '' Les Arts florissants,'' Opéra, H.487 * ''Les Arts florissants,'' H.487 a * ''
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,'' H.488 * '' Idyle sur le retour de la santé du Roi,'' H.489 * ''Celse Martyr, tragédie en musique ('' P. Bretonneau), (lost) * ''
David et Jonathas ''David et Jonathas'' (''David and Jonathan''), H. 490, is an opera in five acts and a prologue by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, first performed at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, on 28 February 1688. The libretto, by ...
,'' H.490 (P. Bretonneau) * ''Ouverture de Mr Charpentier,'' H.490 a * ''
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,'' H.491 ( Thomas Corneille ) ** ''Parodie de deux airs de Médée,'' H.491 a ** ''Parodie de deux airs de Médée,'' H.491 b ** ''Parodie de deux airs de Médée,'' H.491 c * ''492–493 Pastorelette del Sgr M. Ant. Charpentier'' ** ''Amor vince ogni cosa / Pastoraletta 1a del Sigr Charpentier,'' H.492 ** ''Pastoraletta italiana IIa del Sigr Charpentier,'' H.493 * ''Philomèle,'' (lost, composed in collaboration with Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Duc de Chartres) * ''Jugement de Pan,'' (= ''Petite pastorale'' H.479) * ''Le Retour du Printemps,'' (lost) * ''Artaxerse,'' (lost) * ''La Dori e Orente,'' (lost) *''Les Amours d'Acis et Galatée'' (lost) (
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Intermèdes and incidental music

* '' Psyché,'' ( Pierre Corneille , Molière, Quinault ) 1684 (lost) *'' Le médecin malgré lui,'' (
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) (→ H.460, 460 a, 460 b, 460 c) *''Les fâcheux,'' (Molière) (lost) *''Le Dépit amoureux,'' Ouverture (Molière) 1679 (lost) *''La Contesse d'Escarbagnas'' (Molière) H.494i *''Le Mariage forcé,'' H.494 (Molière) H.494ii * '' Le malade imaginaire,'' première version'','' H.495 (
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) * ''Le malade imaginaire,'' seconde version, H.495 a * ''Le malade imaginaire,'' troisième version, H.495 b * ''Profitez du printemps,'' H.495 c * ''Circé,'' H.496 ( Thomas Corneille & Donneau de Visé) (1675) ** ''Parodie de 2 airs de Circé,'' H.496 a ** ''Parodie de 8 airs de Circé,'' H.496 b ** ''Parodie de 8 airs de Circé,'' H.496 c * ''L'inconnu'' (Donneau de Visé & Thomas Corneille), (lost) (1675) * ''Le triomphe des dames'' (Thomas Corneille), (lost) (1676) * ''Sérénade pour le sicilien,'' H.497 (Molière) * ''Ouverture du prologue de Polieucte pour le Collège d'Harcourt,'' H.498 ( Pierre Corneille) *''L'Inconnu,'' H.499 (Donneau de Visé) * ''Acis et Galatée,'' (H.499) (
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) (incomplete) (lost) * ''Le Bavolet,'' H.499 a * ''Les Fous divertissants,'' H.500 (Raymond Poisson) * ''La Pierre philosophale,'' H.501 (Thomas Corneille & Donneau de Visé ) (1681) * ''Endimion,'' H.502 * ''Air pour des paysans dans la Noce de village au lieu de l'air du marié,'' H.503 (Brécourt) * ''
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,'' H.504 ( Pierre Corneille ) (1682) * ''Le rendez vous des Tuileries,'' H.505 (Baron) * ''Dialogue d'Angélique et de Médor,'' H.506 (Dancourt) * ''Vénus et Adonis,'' H.507 ( Donneau de Visé) * ''Apothéose de Laodamus à la mémoire de M. le Maréchal duc de Luxembourg,'' (P. de Longuemare) (lost)


Instrumental works


Sacred (32)

* ''Symphonies pour un reposoir,'' H.508 * ''Symphonie devant Regina coeli,'' H.509 * (untitled) (préludes ?), H.510 '','' H.512 * ''Prélude pour O filii et filiae,'' H.511 * ''Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues,'' H.513 * ''Offerte pour l'orgue et pour les violons, flûtes et hautbois,'' H.514 * ''Symphonies pour un reposoir,'' H.515 * ''Après Confitebor: antienne en D la re sol bécarre,'' H.516 * ''Après Beati omnes: antienne en G re sol bécarre,'' H.517 * ''Pour le sacre d'un évêque,'' H.518 * ''Symphonies pour le Jugement de Salomon,'' H.519 * ''Prélude, menuet et passe-pied pour les flûtes et hautbois devant l'ouverture,'' H.520 * ''Prélude pour ce que l'on voudra non encore employé,'' H.521 * ''Offerte non encore exécutée,'' H.522 * ''Pour un reposoir: Ouverture dès que la procession parait,'' H.523 * ''Ouverture pour l'église,'' H.524 * ''Antienne,'' H.525 * ''Antienne,'' H.526 * ''Prélude pour Sub tuum praesidium à trois violons,'' H.527 * ''Prélude en G re sol bemol à 4 pour les violons et flûtes,'' H.528 * ''Symphonie en G re sol bemol à 3 flûtes ou violons,'' H.529 * ''Prélude en C sol ut bécarre à quatre parties de violons avec flûtes,'' H.530 * ''Noël pour les instruments,'' H.531 * ''Antienne pour les violons, flûtes et hautbois à quatre parties,'' H.532 * ''Prélude pour le second Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments en D la re bécarre,'' H.533 * ''Noël sur les instruments,'' H.534 * ''Prélude pour le Domine salvum en F ut fa à 4 voix,'' H.535 * ''Ouverture pour le sacre d'un évêque,'' H.536 * ''Ouverture pour le sacre d'un évêque pour les violons, flûtes et hautbois,'' H.537 * ''Prélude pour...,'' H.538 * ''Prélude pour le second Dixit Dominus à 4 voix sans instruments en F ut fa,'' H.539


Secular

* ''Ouverture pour quelque belle entreprise à cinq,'' H.540 * ''Deux menuets,'' H.541 * ''Caprice pour trois violons,'' H.542 * ''Pièces de viole,'' H.543 *(untitled) H.544 * ''Concert pour quatre parties de violes,'' H.545 * ''Commencement d'ouverture pour ce que l'on voudra, en la rectifiant un peu,'' H.546 * ''Deux airs de trompette,'' H.547 * ''Sonate pour 2 flûtes allemandes, 2 dessus de violon, une basse de viole, une basse de violon à 5 cordes, un clavecin et un théorbe,'' H.548 * ''Trio de Mr Charpentier'', H.548 bis * ''Menuet de Mr Charpentier & Menuet en suite,'' H.548 ter * ''Menuet de Strasbourg,'' H.549 bis * ''Symphonies... de Charpentier...'' (Collection Philidor vol. XXV), (lost)


Writings

* ''Remarques sur les messes à 16 parties d'Italie,'' H.549 * ''Règles de composition par Mr Charpentier,'' H.550 * ''Abrégé des règles de l'accompagnement de Mr Charpentier,'' H.551


Tributes

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References


Bibliography


Biography

* Saint-Saëns, Camille, ''Au courant de la vie'' , Un contemporain de Lully, chapitre 1, édition Dorbon-Ainé 1914, report édition Wentworth Press, Scholar sélect 2018. * Crussard, Claude (1893–1947), ''Un musicien français oublié, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1634–1704'', Paris, Librairie Floury, 1945. * Lowe, Robert W, ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier et l'opéra de collège'', Paris, G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966, 195 p. *Cessac, Catherine. ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier''. Translated from the French ed. (Paris 1988) by E. Thomas Glasow. Portland (Oregon): Amadeus Press, 1995. *Cessac, Catherine, ed., ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier, un musicien retrouvé'' (Sprimont: Mardaga, 2005), a collection of pioneering works originally disseminated in the ''Bulletin Charpentier'', 1989–2003. The bulk of the articles deal with his life and works: his family and its origins, Italy and Italianism at the Hôtel de Guise, his work for the Jesuits, the sale of his manuscripts, plus background information about specific works. *Cessac, Catherine, ed., ''Les Manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier'' (Wavre: Mardaga, n.d.), papers presented at the conference held at Versailles, 2004. The articles in this volume focus primarily on what scholars can deduce from the 28 autograph volumes that contain his compositions. *Ranum, Patricia M. "A Sweet Servitude: A musician's life at the court of Mlle de Guise," ''Early Music'', 15 (1987), pp. 347–60. *Ranum, Patricia M. "Lully Plays Deaf: Rereading the Evidence on his Privilege," in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., ''Lully Studies'' (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 15–31, which focuses on Charpentier's powerful contacts. *


Music history and theory

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External links

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Charpentier, musicien du Baroque
a site in memory of the 300th anniversary of the composer's death
Te Deum's Prelude in houndbite.comJohn Powell, editions (accompanied by discussions) of some of Charpentier's works

Free scores
at the
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