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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Sacred Vocal Works. Edited by Mary Cyr. New York: The Broude Trust, 2005. (The Collected Works, 3.) [Acknowledgments, p. vii; contents, p. ix; introd., p. xiii-xxxi; editorial policies, p. xxxiii-xxxvi; texts and trans., p. xxxvii-l; score, p. 3-212; crit. apparatus, p. 215-19; report of emendations, p. 221-44; bibliography, p. 245-52; indexes, p. 253-55; 4 plates, p. xvi, 2, 214, 216. Cloth. ISBN 0-8540-8003-2. $175.] Contains: Cantates francoises, sur des sujets tirez de l'Ecriture, books 1-2.
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Three Sacred Cantatas: Esther, Susanne, Judith. Edited by Mary Cyr. New York: The Broude Trust, 2005. (The Collected Works: Performing Extract, 3a.) [Introd., p. iii-vi; texts and trans., p. vii-x; score, 50 p.; performance notes, p. 51-59; 2 plates, and 3 parts (voice, dessus, basse). ISBN 0-8540-8023-7. $25 (score), $25 (parts).]
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. Secular Vocal Works. Edited by Mary Cyr. New York: The Broude Trust, 2005. (The Collected Works, 4.) [Acknowledgments, p. vii; contents, p. ix; introd., p. xiii-xxxiii; editorial policies, p. xxxv-xxxviii; texts and trans., p. xxxix-xlvii; score, p. 3-119; crit. apparatus, p. 123-28; report of emendations, p. 129-43; bibliography, p. 147-52; indexes, p. 153-55; 5 plates, p. xvii, xviii, xx, 2, 122. Cloth. ISBN 0-8540-8004-0. $175.] Contains: Semele; L'ile de Delos; Le sommeil d'Ulissse; Raccommodement comique de Pierrot et de Nicole; Airs from Les amusemens de Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne, Dauphin; Airs from Airs serieux et a boire.
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was one of only a handful of women composers in France during the reign of Louis XIV, and to judge from various accounts and anecdotes from that time, she enjoyed a reputation as high as that of many of her male counterparts. She was one of a generation of composers who, toward the end of the seventeenth century, explored the possibilities of uniting French and Italian musical styles, from which resulted the creation of the first French sonatas and cantatas. While Sebastien de Brossard (1655-1730)...
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