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	Air de cour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the very late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650.
		From approximately 1610 to 1635, during the reign of Louis XIII, this was the predominant form of secular vocal composition in France, especially in the royal court.
		Airs de cour show surprisingly little influence from the Italian early Baroque trends of monody and the madrigal, either in its polyphonic or its concertato form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_de_cour (612 words)

	Flute - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The flat stream of air from the lips, known as the air-reed, breaks against the sharp outer edge of the embouchure.
		The air column of the flute is the sound-producer, whereas in instruments with reed mouthpieces the vibrating reed is more properly the sound-producer, while the air column, acting as a resonating medium, reinforces the note of the reed by vibrating synchronously with it.
		The proportions, position and form of the stopper and of the air chamber situated between it and the embouchure are mainly influential in giving the flute its peculiar slightly hollow timbre, due to the paucity of the upper partials of which according to Helmholtz) only the octave and twelfth are heard.
	www.1911ency.org /F/FL/FLUTE.htm (6080 words)

	Jacob Heringman, lutenist - Reviews
		Most of these songs belong to the most common category of courtly air, that of the air sérieux: suave, elegant songs, often in a free rhythm (that is, without regularly recurring accents) on the usual themes of what we might call the '3 L's' - lauding, loving and languishing.
		When Besard and Bataille first published these airs with lute accompaniments they were probably only restoring them to something like their original conception, for the lute was the standard compositional tool for these songwriters much as the piano would be for nineteenth-century composers, or the guitar for popular songwriters today.
		More courtly in aesthetic are the Entrée, a simple prelude originally played by many lutes to accompany the entrance of dancers for a court ballet, and the Courante, by far the favoured dance form of the period, with its characteristic upbeat and triple-time cross-rhythms, starting to exploit the discontinuous arpeggios of the extraordinary stile brisé.
	www.heringman.com /airs.htm (1066 words)

	Air (disambiguation) Encyclopedia Articles @ HotAndCold.com (Hot and Cold) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Air de cour, secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period
		Air (roller coaster), a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom.
		AIR, a three letter acronym of various meanings.
	www.hotandcold.com /encyclopedia/Air_(disambiguation) (316 words)

	Program
		Although the earliest collection of airs de cour, Livre d’airs de cour mix sur la luth par Adrian Le Roy (Paris, 1571) contained 22 songs with lute accompaniment, airs de cour were usually for four or five unaccompanied voices.
		The Airs de différents autheurs, published in Paris by Ballard, was a collection of fifteen books of lute songs, the first six of which (1608-1615) were edited by Gabriel Bataille.
		The lute of the air de cour composers was basically the same as that of the previous century, with the exception of some added bass strings.
	www.houstonearlymusic.org /hemarchive/archive/2000/espana1.htm (1352 words)

	SEQ CHAPTER
		Mersenne’s discussion of the flute includes the score of a four-part air de cour, of which the bass part must be played on another instrument if the piece is to be played at written pitch, since its range extends down to c in the bass clef.
		Yet, Powell confusingly states that because the air is written in transposed clefs or chiavette, “it is meant to be played at written pitch on a normal G-D-D-D consort of flutes” (57)–that is, a bass in g and three alto/tenors in d’.
		While transposing the air to another key would solve these problems, the most obvious solution would be to assign the bass part to an instrument other than the flute such as the sackbut or serpent, which Mersenne himself suggested was appropriate in flute consorts.
	www.uwm.edu /~jmbowers/powellflute.html (6225 words)

	CD Baby: CORDE' AIR DE COUR: Follow The Compass Of Your Heart
		Corde' Air de Cour was born in 1959 in the Bay area in California.
		When I listen to Corde' Air de Cour's CD I find that songs, like "Melodies of Praise", calm me, other songs, like "Cruising Through the Northwest", has that sound with a kick that I just keep humming throughout my day, while "Africa on My Mind" causes me to ponder.
		While listening to Corde' Air de Cour's CD I get the feeling that he is truly playing and singing from his heart.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/corde?cdbaby=23d04c31496836b11e38a473bee2f143 (610 words)

	MDT - ALPHA057, Alpha CD
		After he became Maître de Musique de la Reyne in 1617 he had his airs published at a regular rate of one book every two years, each one (nine in all) in two versions, the one polyphonic and the other for solo voice and lute.
		His last book of airs de cour was published at the end of his career, ten years after the previous ones, in 1643.
		Transforming the poem into a veritable musical discourse, Boesset took the air de cour genre to its height: in the middle of the seventeenth century, when the basso continuo was making its first appearances in French music, his death marked both its apogee, and its decline.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/ALPHA057.htm (260 words)

	MDT - ALPHA905, Alpha CD
		An anthology of songs (bawdy, blithe, funny or tender), airs de cour and ballets by three major French composers of the first half of the seventeenth century: Pierre Guédron, Anthoine Boesset and Estienne Moulinié.
		The secular output of Anthoine Boesset, Guédron's son-in-law, was devoted exclusively to the air de cour, a genre typical of that period.
		Another major exponent of the air de cour, Estienne Moulinié, worked at the court of the king's younger brother, Gaston of Orléans, and was a close observer of the ‘human comedy’ of his time.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/ALPHA905.htm (270 words)

	index
		Appropriation, Parody, and the Birth of French Opera: Lully's Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus and Molière's Le Malade imaginaire; Recherches sur la musique française classique 29 (1998), 3-26.
		L’Air de cour et le théâtre de collège au XVIIe siècle (paper presented at "L'Air de cour" at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, October 2003).
		Performance Practices at the Théatre de Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française, after Indications in the Autograph Manuscripts of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (paper presented at "Charpentier and His World" at the University of Birmingham, U.K., April 2004).
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~john-powell/ConferencePresentations (473 words)

	Audry Liseron-Monfils -- 22/09/2000 -22/10/2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		His performance 'Cour d'air' includes a custom-built platform, in which Audry is completely enclosed apart from the top lobe of his head.
		Viewers are invited to step up onto the platform where they will find the top of his head at the same level as their feet.
		'Cour d'air' will also be performed at Brixton Library on Saturday 21st October from 11am.
	www.gasworks.org.uk /shows/aud_lis (320 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Lute with an extra pegbox for long bass strings tuned diatonically to play bass notes in a continuo; also called theorbo.
		(Lat., proprium de tempore "proper of the time") Texts and plainchants of the Mass that are assigned to particular days in the church calendar.
		Reworking of an existing tune, song, air, aria, or theme, often in a series of movements called "variations."
	www.iclassics.com /glossaryIndex (4973 words)

	Tous les Matins du Monde - musicolog.com
		As the melody rose, near the door a very pale woman appeared, smiling at him and indicating by her finger that she would not speak, so that he would not be disturbed in what he was doing.
		She sat down on the trunk of music which was in the corner near the table and the bottle of wine and she listened.
		With its typical forms like the grand motet or the air de cour or others, French music of the Grand Siecle is the heritage of a long-established practice but also the fruit of a desire for monopolisation.
	www.musicolog.com /m_touslesmatins2.asp (1006 words)

	H-France Reviews
		The first, “The court and the Air de Cour,” sets the scene by explaining the size and nature of the royal courts, which became remarkably large in the time of Catherine de Medici.
		Her Italian background meant that she was immensely knowledgeable in matters of music and, indeed, in matters of general culture.
		There is a delightful quotation from Brantôme in which the future Henri IV is speculating with the maréchal de Biron, about how he too would like to form a court as ”luxuriant and beautiful” as Catherine’s.
	www.h-france.net /vol1reviews/buisseret.html (689 words)

	CURRICULUM VITA
		Les partitions théâtrales au XVIIe siècle: des débuts jusqu'au Malade Imaginaire" to be published in the Actes du colloque 'Le Parnasse des auteurs dramatiques', sponsored by the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2005.
		Performance Practices at the Théâtre de Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: Evidence from Charpentier’s Mélanges autographes," to be published in a forthcoming Festschrift.
		Presented a paper, “L’Air de cour et le théâtre de collège au XVIIe siècle” at an international conference (L’Air de cour au temps de Henri IV et de Louis XIII) given at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in October 2003.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~john-powell/Vita/vita.htm (1372 words)

	Air Facts: GPS Techniques on DVD Video (includes 2 Air Facts titles) - Sporty's Pilot Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sporty's Air Facts® DVD Video Series addresses this fact with host Richard L. Collins, a renowned aviation journalist with thousands of hours of experience in a variety of general aviation aircraft.
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	www.sportys.com /acb/showdetl.cfm?did=19&product_id=3685 (826 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		It's the first in a series of three devoted to the art of the French song, "from the air de cour to the romance." As for the "air de cour", it's a particular genre of song in which words are prime--and consequently, melody is the all-important messenger.
		Themes tend toward the torments and pleasures of love (sometimes in very risqué language) often involving shepherdesses, and over the centuries evolved to include other topics, such as laments, the joys of drinking ("air à boire), or comments on contemporary events.
		But then you realize that this could be the modern equivalent of the older air de cour, and it makes perfect sense.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2407 (405 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 6 No. 2 \| Review
		The airs of Le Camus include some of the most beautiful, elegant, and touching French vocal chamber music of the seventeenth century, and they are not as well-known today as they should be.
		These pieces represent the late seventeenth-century air de cour at its best, and the collection is the last publication of serious airs in France.
		The only poet identified is Henriette de Coligny, Contesse de la Suze, the author of five song texts in the collection.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v6/no2/Sanford.html (1714 words)

	Royal Air Force Station Biggin Hill
		The familiar pattern of air displays continued and each Empire Air Day, Biggin was thrown open to the public in much the same way as in the days of the more recent Battle of Britain Displays.
		Then, with the contraction of Fighter Command and the fact that the air space over Biggin was becoming too crowded with airliners flying to and from London Airport, No. 41 Squadron disbanded at Biggin and gave its number plate to No. 141 Squadron at Coltishall in January 1958.
		The Chapel which is a living church is situated on the Main Road between the cicil air terminal and Biggin Hill village, its entrance flanked by full-scale replicas of a Hurricane and a Spitfire.
	www.bigginhill.co.uk /rafstation.htm (2115 words)

	classical music - andante - les talens lyriques
		In choosing this name, the title of a work by Rameau, Christophe Rousset demonstrated his fondness for the repertoire of the eighteenth century, to whose discovery and diffusion he makes a particularly felicitous contribution, without this in any sense lessening his interest in the composers of the preceding century.
		The attention given to opera is paralleled by exploration of other forms of French music of the same period: the motet (Dumont, Daniélis), the cantata (Clérambault, Brossard, Montéclair), the air de cour (Dumont, Lambert, de La Barre).
		The ensemble was awarded the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2001.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=23255 (435 words)

	Rochester Early Music Festival Ensemble Biographies
		Founded in Rochester in 1994 by Bonnie Choi, Air de Cour specializes in the performance of music from the 17th and 18th centuries, and occasionally programs 20th-century music.
		The ensemble's name is taken from a French secular vocal music form that was very popular in the last quarter of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries; the name literally means "court air." Air de Cour is currently funded by the New York State Council of the Arts.
		Patrick Macey, Professor of Musicology and currently Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the Eastman School of Music, is a specialist in Renaissance music, in particular the music of Josquin des Prez.
	www.musicaspei.org /Festival01/Biographies.html (1904 words)

	Universidad de Navarra /Navarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution.
		Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue.
		Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside.
	www.unav.es /record=b1686117*spi (162 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A particular interest in the vocal repertoires of the 17th century has led to a number of collaborations with different singers.
		The French Air de Cour tradition, and the Italian and German music of Schütz' and Monteverdi's time form the basis of Anders' daily work.
		Playing electric guitar and contemporary music on the lute has always been a natural counterpart to baroque music making.
	www.anders-ericson.com /frame1.php?visa=bio (243 words)

	Tartu Early Music Festival
		The tune is Pierre Guédron’s 1620 air de cour «Sus, sus, sus, Bergers et Bergeretttes» (Come, come, shepherds and shepherdesses), cited in several Dutch songbooks.
		Baubles of French court life in the form of courants, airs, ballets, and sarabandes littered the landscape of Dutch bergerettes and instrumentalmusic in the 17th century.
		The source of the unnamed ones is as hard to identify as the proverbial needle in the haystack.
	www.ut.ee /festival/laurin2.html (1543 words)

	:: Welcome to A History of Western Music - 7th Edition ::
		air English or French song for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, setting rhymed poetry, often STROPHIC, and usually in the METER of a dance.
		air de cour (French, "court air") Type of song for voice and accompaniment, prominent in France from about 1580 through the seventeenth century.
		aria (Italian, "air") (1) In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, any section of an Italian STROPHIC poem for a solo singer.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/music/grout7/glossary.htm (789 words)

	The Boston Camerata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cantigas de Santa Maria was awarded the Edison Prize in the Netherlands in the spring of 2000.
		The Golden Harvest, was released to critical acclaim in the autumn of 2000.
		Boston Camerata undertakes a historic American tour of the Cantigas de Santa Maria with the Camerata Mediterranea and the Andalusian Orchestra of Fez.
	www.baylinartists.com /boston.htm (904 words)

	The Development of Opera - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After the last dance section, the nobility would usually dance along with the performers in the revels that followed.
		In France it was called the BALLET DE COUR, and, as the title implies, it focused almost completely on the dancing.
		It included a loose plot, some pantomime, and was centered around an "air de cour" which was usually an elaborate courtly love song.
	www.under.org /apprec/Lesson_08/lesson_08.htm (476 words)

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