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Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Cantatas for One and Two Voices
Edited by James R. Anthony and Diran Akmajian
B 29-30 ISBN 0-89579-106-4 (1978) xxvi+169 pp. $61.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-106-1 (13-digit)
These volumes present one Italian and eight French cantatas from Book III (1728) by Montéclair, who was best known for his biblical opera, Jephté. Five of these have parts for one or more obbligato instruments (violins or flutes). The edition also includes a translation of Montéclair's section on vocal ornamentation from his Principes de musique divisez en quatre parties (1736).

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Contents
Les délices champestres; L'heureux moment; Ariane et Bachus; Sur un arbrisseau ; La bergère; Tircis et Climène; Le songe; Europe; La morte di Lucretia