Hello everybody,
some weeks ago a friend sent me an article by Jean Duron, "L'orchestre
de Marc-Antoine Charpentier", published in "Revue de musicologie" 72/1,
Paris 1986.
There the author writes on p. 40-41: "Le théorbe n’est jamais mentionné
dans les sources chez Charpentier et très rarement chez ses
contemporains. [..] La présence à l’Opéra est prouvée par quelques notes
manuscrites ajoutées — tablature — sur la partie de basse-continue de
Proserpine de Lully." The corresponding footnote says: 20. "Voir une
partition Ballard conservée à Paris, Bibliothèque nationale : Vm251."
I just today had a conversation via e-mail with a guy from the BNF, and
he even sent me two pictures of the corresponding Proserpine-Edition
(shelfmark Vm2 51), but the annotations in the Proserpine copy Duron
mentions has only usual note annotations, nothing in tablature.
I'm wondering if Duron made a mistake? Maybe somebody here knows more
about the Lully-prints in the BNF and did see some theorbo intabulations
in the works of Lully?
Thank you very much - if these intabulations really exist it would be
great news for us!
Yuval
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