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Clément Janequin's spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteenth-century Europe, and earned him lasting success with vocal ensembles and audiences around the world.
Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelaisian wit.
This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelaisian wit.
This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
Price: $170.00
Pages: 398
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
14 May 2024
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781648250859
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Composers and songwriters, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Biography: arts and entertainment, History of music
It stands out as a landmark study, the impressive result of a sustained effort that cannot but have a durable impact.
— THE CONSORT
The most comprehensive and up-to-date attempt to reconstruct Janequin's biography and examine his output...Written in an agile prose, with a tinge of humour where appropriate, Norsen's book will undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience ranging from scholars to amateur performer. Accompanied by an online companion.
— EARLY MUSIC AMERICA
Norsen réunit avec cette double publication, imprimée et numérique, une somme considérable d'informations et d'analyses, embrassant tous les aspects de la vie et de la production du compositeur... Un style vif, souvent familier, émaillé d'humour, rend la lecture de cet ouvrage assez divertissante.
With this double publication-the book and its website-Norsen provides a considerable quantity of information and analyses relating to all aspects of the composer's life and output...The lively and sometimes personal style, sparkling with humor, makes this work quite enjoyable to read.
— REVUE DE MUSICOLOGIE
— THE CONSORT
The most comprehensive and up-to-date attempt to reconstruct Janequin's biography and examine his output...Written in an agile prose, with a tinge of humour where appropriate, Norsen's book will undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience ranging from scholars to amateur performer. Accompanied by an online companion.
— EARLY MUSIC AMERICA
Norsen réunit avec cette double publication, imprimée et numérique, une somme considérable d'informations et d'analyses, embrassant tous les aspects de la vie et de la production du compositeur... Un style vif, souvent familier, émaillé d'humour, rend la lecture de cet ouvrage assez divertissante.
With this double publication-the book and its website-Norsen provides a considerable quantity of information and analyses relating to all aspects of the composer's life and output...The lively and sometimes personal style, sparkling with humor, makes this work quite enjoyable to read.
— REVUE DE MUSICOLOGIE
Preface
Guidelines for the Reader
Music Examples
Secular Works
Sacred Works
Documents
Manuscript Sources
Printed Sources
Chapter 1: Beginnings
The Janequin Name
The Janequin Family in Bourges
The Janequin Family in Châtellerault
Janequin's Date of Birth
Chapter 2: Bordeaux
The City and its Institutions
Lancelot du Fau
Choirmaster in Luçon
Lancelot du Fau as Janequin's Patron
Chapter 3: Descriptive Chansons
"The Lark" ("L'Alouette"/"Or sus, or sus") (LM5a/b)
"The Song of the Birds" ("Le Chant des oiseaux"/"Reveillez-vous") (LM2)
"The Battle of Marignan" ("La Guerre"/"Escoutez") (LM3)
"The Hunt" ("La Chasse"/"Gentilz veneurs") (LM4)
"The Market Cries of Paris" ("Les Cris de Paris"/"Voulez ouyr") (LM14)
Chronology of the Early Descriptive Chansons
Shifts in Focus in the Early Descriptive Chansons
Chapter 4: National Attention
Archbishop Jean de Foix
The Royal Visit to Bordeaux of 1526
Pierre Attaingnant and the Chansons de maistre Clement Janequin
The Document Trail in Bordeaux
"Chantons, sonnons" and the Release of the Princes (1530)
Choirmaster in Auch (1531)
The Missa La bataille of 1532
Chapter 5: Angers
The Cathedral St. Maurice
Françoise Auvé and the Abbey of Ronceray
The Gondis, the Guises and Angevine Continuity
Levron's "Western Renaissance"
The Motets of 1533
Cathedral Choirmaster
Chanson Production 1533-1537
Chanson Production 1537-1549
The Waning of the House of Attaingnant
Periodization, Provincialism, and Productivity
Chapter 6: Chansons musicales
Categories
Parameters
Vocal Ranges
Melodic Practice
Tonality and Harmonic Practices
Durational Values and Metric Combinations
Texture
Texts and Text Treatment
Chapter 7: Du Chemin and the 28 Psalms of 1549
Changes at Court
The Breaking of Attaingnant's Monopoly
Changes in Angers
Paris: When and How?
Parisian Printer Nicolas du Chemin
Du Chemin and Janequin
The "Psalm Vogue"
The 28 Psalms of 1549
Janequin's Motives
Chapter 8: Paris 1551-1555
Claude Goudimel
Pierre de Ronsard and Les Amours of 1552
The Mass "L'Aveuglé dieu"
The Second Book of Spiritual Chansons and Cantiques
The Invention Series
Chapter 9: Prebends, Patrons, and the Commerce of Music Printing
Prebends
Court Support and Royal Titles
Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1528-1547
Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1547-1558
Chapter 10: Paris 1556-1558
Fezandat
Le Roy and Ballard
The Premier livre of 1556
The Spiritual Chansons
The Late Chansons
The Proverbs
The Verger de musique
The 82 Psalms
Last Will and Testament
Epilogue
Appendix A: Documents
Appendix B: Manuscript Sources
Appendix C: Printed Sources
Appendix D: Revised Secular Catalogue
Appendix E: Catalogue of Sacred Vocal Works by Janequin
Bibliography
Index
Guidelines for the Reader
Music Examples
Secular Works
Sacred Works
Documents
Manuscript Sources
Printed Sources
Chapter 1: Beginnings
The Janequin Name
The Janequin Family in Bourges
The Janequin Family in Châtellerault
Janequin's Date of Birth
Chapter 2: Bordeaux
The City and its Institutions
Lancelot du Fau
Choirmaster in Luçon
Lancelot du Fau as Janequin's Patron
Chapter 3: Descriptive Chansons
"The Lark" ("L'Alouette"/"Or sus, or sus") (LM5a/b)
"The Song of the Birds" ("Le Chant des oiseaux"/"Reveillez-vous") (LM2)
"The Battle of Marignan" ("La Guerre"/"Escoutez") (LM3)
"The Hunt" ("La Chasse"/"Gentilz veneurs") (LM4)
"The Market Cries of Paris" ("Les Cris de Paris"/"Voulez ouyr") (LM14)
Chronology of the Early Descriptive Chansons
Shifts in Focus in the Early Descriptive Chansons
Chapter 4: National Attention
Archbishop Jean de Foix
The Royal Visit to Bordeaux of 1526
Pierre Attaingnant and the Chansons de maistre Clement Janequin
The Document Trail in Bordeaux
"Chantons, sonnons" and the Release of the Princes (1530)
Choirmaster in Auch (1531)
The Missa La bataille of 1532
Chapter 5: Angers
The Cathedral St. Maurice
Françoise Auvé and the Abbey of Ronceray
The Gondis, the Guises and Angevine Continuity
Levron's "Western Renaissance"
The Motets of 1533
Cathedral Choirmaster
Chanson Production 1533-1537
Chanson Production 1537-1549
The Waning of the House of Attaingnant
Periodization, Provincialism, and Productivity
Chapter 6: Chansons musicales
Categories
Parameters
Vocal Ranges
Melodic Practice
Tonality and Harmonic Practices
Durational Values and Metric Combinations
Texture
Texts and Text Treatment
Chapter 7: Du Chemin and the 28 Psalms of 1549
Changes at Court
The Breaking of Attaingnant's Monopoly
Changes in Angers
Paris: When and How?
Parisian Printer Nicolas du Chemin
Du Chemin and Janequin
The "Psalm Vogue"
The 28 Psalms of 1549
Janequin's Motives
Chapter 8: Paris 1551-1555
Claude Goudimel
Pierre de Ronsard and Les Amours of 1552
The Mass "L'Aveuglé dieu"
The Second Book of Spiritual Chansons and Cantiques
The Invention Series
Chapter 9: Prebends, Patrons, and the Commerce of Music Printing
Prebends
Court Support and Royal Titles
Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1528-1547
Janequin and the Music Printing Industry 1547-1558
Chapter 10: Paris 1556-1558
Fezandat
Le Roy and Ballard
The Premier livre of 1556
The Spiritual Chansons
The Late Chansons
The Proverbs
The Verger de musique
The 82 Psalms
Last Will and Testament
Epilogue
Appendix A: Documents
Appendix B: Manuscript Sources
Appendix C: Printed Sources
Appendix D: Revised Secular Catalogue
Appendix E: Catalogue of Sacred Vocal Works by Janequin
Bibliography
Index