Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Duron, Jean
2. Gipson, Jennifer
3. Justice, Andrew
4. Lemmon, Alfred E. (Alfred Emmette), 1949-
5. McKnight, Mark, 1951-

Description

1. 1 score (xii, 284 pages); 21 x 28 cm

Alternative title

1. Spiritual songs from the Ursuline convent (1736)
2. Musique française baroque à la Nouvelle-Orléans : recueil d'airs spirituels des Ursulines (1736)

Subject

1. Historic New Orleans Collection
2. Ursulines of New Orleans (New Orleans, La.)
3. Sacred songs > France > 18th century
4. Songs with continuo > 18th century
5. Sacred songs > Louisiana > New Orleans > 18th century > History and criticism
6. Contrafacta

Genre/Form

1. Contrafacta.
2. Songs.
3. Scores.
4. Facsimiles.

Contents

1. Music in colonial Louisiana / by Alfred E. Lemmon -- Louisiana baroque : bibliographical details of Nouvelles poésies / by Mark McKnight -- From secular music to sacred poetry : the textual trajectory of Nouvelles poésies / by Jennifer Gipson -- Performance practice : crafting a historically informed interpretation of Nouvelle poésies / by Andrew Justice -- Facsimile : Nouvelles poésies spirituelles et morales sur les plus beaux airs de la musique françoise et italienne avec la basse.

Call number

1. JPD 16-1

Note

1. Features a full-color facsimile of an 18th-century illustrated collection of songs which the Ursuline nuns of New Orleans received as a gift in 1754.
2. Includes preface by Alfred E. Lemmon and introduction by Jean Duron (pages vi-xii); essays by various authors (pages 1-28), all in French and English.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

1. French words.

Title

1. French baroque music of New Orleans : spiritual songs from the Ursuline convent (1736) = Musique française baroque à la Nouvelle-Orléans : recueil d'airs spirituels des Ursulines (1736) / essays by Jean Duron, Jennifer Gipson, Andrew Justice, Alfred E. Lemmon, Mark McKnight ; edited by Alfred E. Lemmon.

Publisher

1. New Orleans, Louisiana : The Historic New Orleans Collection, [2014]

Copyright date

1. ©2014

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. notated music
2. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language

1. French words.
2. Staff notation.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Duron, Jean, writer of supplementary textual content.
2. Gipson, Jennifer, writer of supplementary textual content.
3. Justice, Andrew, writer of supplementary textual content.
4. Lemmon, Alfred E. (Alfred Emmette), 1949- writer of supplementary textual content.
5. McKnight, Mark, 1951- writer of supplementary textual content.

Other standard identifier

1. 9790800031007

ISBN

1. 9780917860652
2. 0917860659

Research call number

1. JPD 16-1