Music and Spectacle at Versailles
Explore the music, dance and spectacle at the glittering courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV through the life and works of some of the greatest composers of French baroque music. The course includes, among others: Lully, Charpentier, Couperin, Marin Marais and Rameau.
A Selected Bibliography:
Louis XIV and The Greatness Of France
The Sun King (Vintage Classics). Nancy Mitford
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera
A Selected Discography:
Tous les matins du monde. Jordi Savall
Le Roi Danse DVD (NO ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles
Lully: Les Divertissements de Versailles
Henry Dumont: Motets pour la chapelle du roy
Ombre De Mon Amant – French Baroque Arias
Charpentier: Canticum ad Beatum Virginem Mariam
Charpentier: Te Deum, Missa Assumpta est Maria, Litanies
La Musique Au Temps De Marin Marais
Marais – Suitte d’un Gout Etranger (Suite in a Foreign Style)
Delalande: Dies Irae / Miserere
François Couperin: Apotheosis of Lully
Couperin: Trois Lecons De Tenebres
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre – Harpsichord Suites Nos 1 – 6
