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– Published on 30/09/2019

Songs from Occitania, French airs from Hebrew sources in Baroque Provence

Jews in Provence, like their Christian neighbours, composed and sang their Hebrew liturgy to popular secular tunes. Between the 16th and 18th centuries their prayer books, manuscripts and printed music [...]

Seminar on the CESR research project ‘The European Stage – Performing Arts, Art of Performance’

The seminar sprang from the idea of encouraging across the board reflection on the CESR research project ‘The European Stage – Performing Arts, Art of Performance’ , bringing together the permanent members [...]

The Music of Actors

Forty years ago, pioneering work, notably Dene Barnett, Eugène Green, Philippe Lénaël and Michel Verschaeve, paved the way to reviving early performance techniques based on treatises on song, grammar and [...]

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis-France

Après un cycle de trois séminaires (2019-2022) consacrés à l’exploration des phénomènes de circulation et de transversalité des pratiques entre les théâtres parisiens, le programme de recherche ThéPARis [...]

L’Histoire de l’Académie royale de musique by François and Claude Parfaict (1741)

This project involves the publication of a PDF digital book in the form of a critical edition of l’Histoire de l’Académie royale de musique by brothers François and Claude Parfaict, a major work [...]

Table music

Midway between entertainment and ritual, during the Ancien Régime meals accompanied by music became a social must and symbol of power, a veritable mark of elite status. While the ritual royal banquets [...]

Night scenes in 17th and 18th century theatre

This project stands between the history of the stage and theatre techniques and includes the mindsets and anthropological values attached to the Night. It incorporates political, cultural, dramaturgical, [...]

The Fabrication of Performance: Processes and Politics of Costume-Making in the 18th-Century

In the 18th century, theatre was an important tool for promoting both political and personal agendas, and it can be seen as a barometer of socio-political changes. While theatrical costumes have [...]

Completed project

MUSICOVID/ASTRAMUSICA

To combat the pandemic, in March 2020 public authorities worldwide enforced emergency measures, controlling public spaces and restricting personal freedom, which had serious repercussions on social and [...]

Les Ballard, imprimeurs du roi pour la musique

Les Ballard, imprimeurs du roi pour la musique

The Ballard workshop, royal music printers

When directing his workshop from 1672 to 1715, Christophe Ballard worked during a period when institutional music was highly concentrated in Paris and Versailles. Supported by the king, its significant [...]

Completed project

Les premiers ateliers français de copistes en musique

Les premiers ateliers français de copistes en musique

The early French music copyists' workshops

Besides printers and engravers, copyists are essential links in the production of musical sources. They may work in a very productive workshop (Philidor and Fossard's is a typical example), or alternatively [...]

The Concert Academies in 18th century France

The first Académies de musique, Académies de Concert (also simply called Concerts) emerged in the 1710’s and expanded considerably between 1720 and 1750. They rapidly spread across France and instituted [...]

La cantate en France au XVIIIe siècle, projet de recherche du CMBV

La cantate en France au XVIIIe siècle, projet de recherche du CMBV

The Cantata in 18th century France

The Cantata is a major poetic and music genre of the 18th century, particularly during the first thirty years. Born in the 17th century and originally imported from Italy, it took many different forms [...]

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis. Les théâtres parisiens sous l'Ancien régime, séminaire de recherche pluridisciplinaire

ThéPARis

A multidisciplinary research seminar co-organised by the CMBV, the Centre for Renaissance Studies (Tours University), Côté d’Azur University and the CTEL (Literature & Performing Arts research centre), [...]

La France et les pays tchèques, projet de recherche du CMBV

La France et les pays tchèques, projet de recherche du CMBV

Musical life in France and in the lands of the Bohemian crown in the 17th and 18th centuries

The project aims to investigate the different strategies and methods of cultural exchange in Europe during the Ancien Régime, and to focus on the (little-known) links between France and the lands of the [...]

Musique et musiciens italiens en France, projet de recherche du CMBV

Musique et musiciens italiens en France, projet de recherche du CMBV

Italian music and Italian musicians in France

Traditionally seen as a counter-model, the Italian musical style actually had a substantial impact on the forming of the French musical style. Italian musicians were on French soil due to circumstance [...]

Completed project

Les livres d’airs de différents auteurs

Les livres d’airs de différents auteurs

Les livres d’airs de différents auteurs (LADDA)

The 37 Livres d’Airs featuring various composers and published each year between 1658 and 1694 by Robert and later Christophe Ballard forms a corpus of around 1220 airs. They reflect the popularity of [...]

Completed project

L’air de cour

L’air de cour

Airs de cour

The air de cour was an iconic social musical genre in the late Renaissance and through the first half of the 17th century. It has aroused a great deal of public interest in the last ten years or so, [...]

Completed project

Symphonies pour les soupers du roi

Symphonies pour les soupers du roi

Les Soupers du Roi

Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi : the nature and role of court music 2019 / 2020 academic year Focusing on the iconic Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi , the CMBV has embarked on a joint 3-year [...]

Musiques religieuses dans les cours régnantes d’Europe

Musiques religieuses dans les cours régnantes d’Europe

Religious Music in the Sovereign Courts of Europe

This cross-discipline European research project comprises a comparative study of the use of music to create a ‘sound image’ of a Monarch’s religion during the Counter-Reformation across Europe; how it [...]

Motets and Liturgy

Focusing on the motet, the iconic musical genre of the Ancien Régime, the project sets out to discover how this ‘modern’ paraliturgical polymorphic music (e.g. chapel motets, grands motets and petits motets) [...]

Les manuscrits Tours-168 et Deslauriers

Les manuscrits Tours-168 et Deslauriers

Choir school music in France

Choir School Music in France: the Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts 2019 / 2020 academic year The Tours-168 and Deslauriers manuscripts of sacred music are rare testimonies of the music [...]

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