Nine Seventeenth-Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully
Nine Seventeenth-Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully
Edited with an Introduction by ALMONTE C. HOWELL
Copyright Date: 1963
Published by: University Press of Kentucky
Pages: 24
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Nine Seventeenth-Century Organ Transcriptions from the Operas of Lully
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Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so suited to French tastes and needs that it alone, among the attempts of various other nations at operatic forms of their own, was able to resist domination by Italian opera and to maintain its individual identity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The impress he made upon French music was enormous, and it affected every musical medium of his day. Evidence of his influence in a field as remote from his own as the literature for the organ is seen in the nine pieces that make up this present collection.

Despite their operatic origins, the Lully transcriptions should be useful to the present-day church organist, as the pieces have no secular associations for present-day listeners. The overtures make excellent preludes for festive services, and the marches are suitable both for processionals and postludes. For recital use, several of the pieces could be very successfully grouped together into a suite.

eISBN: 978-0-8131-6516-5
Subjects: Music
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-ii)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. iii-iv)
  3. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. v-x)

    Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so suited to French tastes and needs that it alone, among the attempts of various other nations at operatic forms of their own, was able to resist domination by Italian opera and to maintain its individual identity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Lully’s hold upon opera in France during the period of his productivity in that field, from 1673 to 1687, was partly political, for the wily Florentine succeeded in obtaining for himself...

  4. No. 1. L’OUVERTURE DE BELLEROPHON
    No. 1. L’OUVERTURE DE BELLEROPHON (pp. 1-2)
  5. No. 2. L’OUVERTURE D’ISIS
    No. 2. L’OUVERTURE D’ISIS (pp. 3-4)
  6. No. 3. TROMPETTE DE L’OPERA [Prelude from the Prologue to Isis]
    No. 3. TROMPETTE DE L’OPERA [Prelude from the Prologue to Isis] (pp. 5-5)
  7. No. 4. MENUET [Air from Isis, Act III, Scene xi]
    No. 4. MENUET [Air from Isis, Act III, Scene xi] (pp. 6-6)
  8. No. 5. MENÜETT [2e Air pour les Muses, from the Prologue to Isis]
    No. 5. MENÜETT [2e Air pour les Muses, from the Prologue to Isis] (pp. 7-7)
  9. No. 6. L’OUVERTURE DE L’OPERA D’ALCESTE
    No. 6. L’OUVERTURE DE L’OPERA D’ALCESTE (pp. 8-9)
  10. No. 7. MARCHE DE L’OPERA [Rondeau from the Prologue to Alceste]
    No. 7. MARCHE DE L’OPERA [Rondeau from the Prologue to Alceste] (pp. 10-11)
  11. No. 8. PIECE DE L’OPERA [Duo from the Prologue to Atys]
    No. 8. PIECE DE L’OPERA [Duo from the Prologue to Atys] (pp. 12-12)
  12. No. 9. LA MARCHE [Entrée des Sacrificateurs, from Thesée, Act I, Scene xi]
    No. 9. LA MARCHE [Entrée des Sacrificateurs, from Thesée, Act I, Scene xi] (pp. 13-14)
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