Keywords: | videlicet haute-contres, tailles, quintes, french orchestral pieces, reconstruction, post-lully |
Duration: | Started in 2017 |
Period: | 17th century music, 18th century music |
Musician type: | keyboard |
Host institution: | Leiden University |
By analyzing orchestral excerpts which were edited or copied in both forms, a five voice reconstruction of these diminished works will be produced. Furthermore, there shall be an accompanying report on how those parts were added in the common practice at the time and its relation with current instrumentation (since the aforementioned instruments are not redily available today). In order to fully realize this, it is important to examine these filledout works in a 21st century performance setting. The period to be explored is the one after J.B. Lully’s death until the death of A. Campra, emcompassing the so-called post Lully generation, specifically from 1687 untill 1744.