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	Jean-Philippe Rameau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rameau's father was the organist at the cathedral of Dijon, and had his son practicing harpsichord at the earliest age possible.
		However, Rameau began his studies in the field of law before deciding that the study and composition of music was his true passion.
		It wasn't until he reached his 40s that Rameau achieved prominence in the field of composition, but by the death of Couperin in 1733 he was arguably the leading French composer of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rameau (298 words)

	AMARCORDES - Rameau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau was the object of several satirical engravings and a scurrilous poem; this last led to an unseemly brawl between the composer and its perpetrator, Pierre-Charles Roy (Sadler, 1988).
		Rameau maintained the traditional distinction between the grand choeur, or full four-part chorus in which the ‘alto’ part was sung by high tenors (hautes-contre), and the petit choeur, a semi-chorus consisting usually of three upper voice parts.
		Rameau was always insistent that major and minor scales were generated by the fundamental bass, partly in order to prove the primacy of harmony over melody and partly to justify the pedagogical efficacy of his fundamental bass.
	www.amarcordes.ch /compositeurs/rameau_grove.htm (16070 words)

	Jean-Philippe Rameau
		Rameau had various patrons, notably the financier La Pouplinière; he moved in intellectual circles and counted Voltaire among his friends.
		When Rameau died, in 1764, he was widely respected and admired though he was seen too as unsociable and avaricious.
		Rameau's harpsichord music is notable for its variety of texture, its originality of line and its boldness of harmony.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/rameau.html (540 words)

	Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His Traité de l'harmonie (1722) laid the foundation for a rational science of music, and his concept of the invertibility of triads--a stroke of genius by any measure--had great consequences for the teaching of theory.
		Rameau was a first-rate composer as well as theorist, composing mainly operas but also sacred, harpsichord, and chamber works.
		In the "War of the Buffoons" of 1752 Rameau was a defender of the French opera style of Lully and Destouches as opposed to the opera buffa of Pergolesi.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/rameau.html (144 words)

	JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From fundamental harmonies he passed to inverted chords, to which he was the first to call attention; and the value of this discovery fully compensates for his erroneous theory concerning the chords of the eleventh and the great (Angi.
		Rameau first set forth his new theory in his Trait de lharmonie (Paris, 1722), and followed it up in his Nouveau systme (1726), Gnration harmonique (1737), Demonstration (17 5p) and Nouvelles rflexions (1752).
		Though this work was violently opposed by the admirers of Lulli, whose party spirit eventually stirred up the famous guerre des bouffons, Rameaus genius was too brilliant to be trampled under foot by an ephemeral faction and his ultimate triumph was assured.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAMEAU_JEAN_PHILIPPE.htm (577 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau was the leading French composer of his time, in particular after the death of Couperin in 1733.
		Sixty of Rameau's 65 harpsichord pieces were written by 1728, with a final group appearing in 1741.
		In the later part of his career Rameau also wrote a series of suites, the Pièces de clavecin en concerts, for harpsichord, flute or violin and second violin or tenor viol.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Rameau,+Jean-Philippe (236 words)

	Jean-Philippe Rameau: a biographical note
		Rameau was to be embroiled for the rest of his life in controversies concerning his music and writings.
		Rameau and his family lodged at his various residences and belonged to the stimulating circle of writers, artists and musicians gathered around La Poupliniere.
		In 1748 Rameau and Voltaire produced Les surprises de l'amour for the Théâtre des Petits-Cabinets of Mme de Pompadour.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxrameau.html (647 words)

	HOASM: Jean-Philippe Rameau
		Rameau began working with Voltaire on Samson, but the project was abandoned.
		In 1745 alone three of Rameau's compositions were written for the court, including two collaborations with Voltaire (La pri ncesse de Navarre and Le temple de la Gloire); 1750 saw the publication of his Démonstration du principe de I'harmonie, written in collaboration with Denis Diderot (Paris, 1750).
		Rameau is regarded, along with Lully and Gluck, as one of the principal masters of pre-Revolutionary French opera.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIF/Rameau.html (589 words)

	Rameau - Overtures - A Good-Music-Guide Review
		Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was an almost exact contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and was the greatest French musician and music theorist of his day.
		Rameau's music is of the frilled collar and powdered wig.
		For every opera and ballet he wrote, Rameau wrote an overture, and he was the first to relate the overture to the subject of the major work, either in tone, or theme.
	www.good-music-guide.com /reviews/093-rameau-overtures.htm (646 words)

	Rameau Zoroastre Christie [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Rameau's 'Zoroastre' was first performed in 1749, at the Academie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera), Rameau was at the height of his powers and his music dominated the Paris Opera stage.
		Rameau's rich soundworld is put to good use as the action varies from tender love scenes between Zoroastre and his beloved Amelite (Gaelle Mechaly) to the demonic incantations of Abramane, Erinice (Anna Maria Panzarella) and their hordes.
		Rameau is at his most inventive in creating different soundworlds for the two opposing forces and both orchestra and chorus never fail to do justice to Rameau's inventions.
	musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Jun03/Rameau_Zoroastre.htm (975 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Rameau Les Boreades at BAM, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A mythic tale of a young queen who chooses to abdicate her throne rather than be forced into a marriage with a descendant of Boreas, god of the North Wind - Les Boréades was abandoned in rehearsals at the Paris Opera in 1763 for reasons unclear to this day.
		"It is Rameau who emerges as the real hero of Les Boréades, in bold rhythms and daring melodic lines, in the charming evocation of a clock in the "Gavotte pour les heures", the threatening tempest and torture scenes, and the uninhibited quality of the choruses.
		"Rameau's music is appealingly varied, both in its accompaniment of the singers and in the long musical interludes for ballet typical of many 18th-century operas.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/03bamboreades.html (599 words)

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		Rameau was thrust into the middle of a war of aesthetics.
		Rameau's harmony was always orderly; he was, after all, a grand theorist.
		Rameau's music has all the qualities that would characterize French music well into the 20th century - gracet clarity, wit, occasional sentimentality and a taste for the picturesque.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-4041.htm (1220 words)

	NewOlde.com - Jean-Philippe Rameau - Operas, New Releases, Reviews, News, Harpsichord Music, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Transcriptions by Rameau, Balbastre and Weiss from Castor and Pollux, Dardanus, Les Indes Gallantes and Pygmalion.
		Rameau's original, 1733 version, portions of which may never have been performed until now.
		Fontainebleau Operas for the Court of Louis XV of France by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
	www.newolde.com /rameau.htm (1447 words)

	Jean-Philippe Rameau Menuet en Rondeau Free Guitar Score (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jean-Philippe Rameau, the leading French composer of the baroque period, was born in Dijon, France on September 25, 1683.
		Rameau was a child prodigy, performing music of every type of by the age of seven.
		As a theorist, Rameau is known as the "Father of Harmony." A second book on harmonic theory, "Nouveau système de musique théorique," or "New System of Music Theory," was published four years later.
	sologuitarist.net /rameau.html (523 words)

	Jean-Philippe Rameau - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau began his musical career as an organist, but for a long time was best known as a theorist.
		Rameau didn't begin composing operas until he was into his fifties.
		Rameau's output is small if measured in total number of works, but when one considers that he didn't begin a serious career in composition until his life was more than half over, the amount of actual music is astounding.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=rameau (450 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean-Philippe Rameau
		Rameau was very tall and extraordinarily thin, so he had more the appearance of a ghost than of a human being.
		Without denying the merits of Lully (1633-1687) and Couperin (1663-1733), the founders of the French opera, and even admitting that Rameau was not right in all the details of his theory, we must acknowledge that he opened up a new road, which was followed by all who came after him.
		His main principle, for the defence of which he had to sustain hard struggles, was that melody, far from being sufficient for a good piece of music, itself depends on the rules of harmony, so that the real guide of every composer is harmony, not melody.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12637c.htm (448 words)

	France diplomatie - Une galerie de compositeurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Son père, Jean Rameau, organiste de la cathédrale de Dijon, fut peut-être son premier maître, mais rien n'est établi avec certitude, car nous ne savons que très peu de choses de l'enfance et de la jeunesse du compositeur.
		Rameau fut pourtant bien un novateur, et ses opéras constituent un renouveau total de l'opéra classique français, dans un style beaucoup plus audacieux et varié que celui de Lully, en particulier dans l'importance donnée à l'orchestre, avec l'introduction de véritables pièces de musique descriptive (comme, par exemple, le tremblement de terre des Indes Galantes).
		Enfin, l'influence de Rameau théoricien de la musique, fut considérable, notamment dans le domaine de l'harmonie, dont il a fondé les bases de l'enseignement.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /culture/galerie_composit/rameau.html (438 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Minkowski mines magic of Jean-Philippe Rameau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau (1683-1764) was the last in the long line of composers who created operas, ballet scores and other entertainments for the French Bourbon kings and their courtiers.
		The Old Regime, as it was known after the revolution of 1789, doted on lavish theatricality and vividly colorful music, earthy and energetic in its dances and sublimely wistful in its depictions of love and sorrow.
		Minkowski's "Symphonie imaginaire" is a splendid introduction to Rameau, captivating in its energies, enthralling in its moodiness -- priming the listener for the discovery of the composer's original works.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783693405&path=%21flair%21ae&s=1045855936372 (437 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Rameau: Intégrale Des Piéces De Clavecin / Michel Kiener
		For many harpsichordists a Rameau cycle represents what a Beethoven symphony cycle would for most conductors--the crowning achievement of the genre, since what a performer brings to Rameau reveals not only his level of technical virtuosity but even more so his ability to creatively exploit the infinite opportunities inherent in Rameau's innovative scores.
		This is Rameau at his grandest, most elegant, and most expansive, so richly detailed that you not only listen to the performances but also luxuriate in the experience.
		This is the Rameau event of the year (no, I haven't forgotten about William Christie's outstanding Erato recording of Zoroastre), and regardless of your familiarity with these masterpieces, please allow Kiener to surpass all of your expectations.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=78225 (548 words)

	Jean-Philippe Rameau
		Rameau se trouva ainsi involontairement mêlé à plusieurs controverses au long de sa carrière.
		Les orchestrations expressives de Rameau et ses harmonies audacieuses constituèrent une avancée fondamentale de l'opéra «!à la française!».
		Les traités de Rameau explorèrent le système tonal et en firent le fondateur de l'harmonie moderne.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /jean-claude.brenac/RAMEAU.htm (809 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Carsen on Rameau Les Boreades at BAM, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Apollo intervenes, revealing that the unknown Abaris is in fact his son with a Boreade nymph: Alphise may marry him, remain Queen and still fulfil her destiny.
		Rameau's choice to compose an opera which extols personal liberty at the expense of the status quo, also liberated himself as a composer.
		Les Boreades, was the last opera that Rameau was to write, written when he was in his seventies.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/03bambocarsen.html (752 words)

	French culture \| music: Rameau's Platee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mark Morris's hilarious production of Platée, Jean-Philippe Rameau's 250 year old ballet bouffon about a lonely lady frog delusionally in love with the god Jupiter, is a riotous cabaret that may do more to popularize baroque music than respectable musicology and the authentic instrument movement have been able to do over the last 40 years.
		When Rameau wrote this entertainment in 1745, he parodied the hackneyed conventions of antique theater.
		Rameau wrote the part for a haute contre, a high voice close to what the English call a countertenor, or male alto.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/01plateeoct.html (673 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
		Burning with desire to remedy the imperfections of his early education, Rameau diligently studied the writings of Zarlino, Descartes, F. Kircher and other theorists.
		From fundamental harmonies he passed to inverted chords, to which he was the first to call attention; and the value of this discovery fully compensates for his erroneous theory concerning the chords of the eleventh and the great sixth.
		Rameau first set forth his new theory in his Traite de l'harmonie (Paris,; 1722),; and followed it up in his Nouveau systeme (1726),; Generation harmonique (1737), Demonstration (1750?) and Nouvelles reflexions (1752).
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=909 (683 words)

	Rameau Discography at CD Universe
		Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin, Bach / Sérgio & Odair Assad
		Rameau / Bonney / Agnew / Naouri / Christie
		Rameau discography of albums, songs, lyrics, biography, reviews, cover art pictures, and sound samples on this page is for personal non-commercial use only.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/Rameau/a/Rameau.htm (626 words)

	Rameau, Jean Philippe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau's career was marked by controversies; at first he was attacked for his Italianate departure from the classical style of Lully, and later he was criticized for his old-fashioned French style.
		His harpsichord works and chamber music are brilliant examples of the elegant rococo style of the mid-18th cent.
		Rameau: Dardanus and Le Temple de la Glorire, instrumental music.(Sound Recording Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Rameau-J1.asp (371 words)

	Amazon.com: Rameau - Dardanus / Ainsley, Gens, Naouri, Delunsch, Courtis, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau is gaining in prestige (New York City Opera is staging his works) and this recording certainly will enhance his popularity.
		Rameau hits his stride in the last half of the opera.
		Previous recordings of Rameau have always seemed to me to be rather dull, but this one is full of energy and commitment and directed with flair.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R9F6?v=glance (2038 words)

	Amazon.com: Rameau - Overtures / Christophe Rousset, Les talens lyriques: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rameau waited until he was nearly 50 before writing his first opera, but after that there was no holding him back.
		Although he was the major musical theorist of his day, Rameau's works sound wholly fresh and spontaneous, with numerous surprising twists and turns of phrase where you least expect them.
		Rameau is usually looked upon as the last French baroque composer, a remnant of Louis XIV's age in a time when both audiences and intellectuals were attracted by italian opera.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000004CYY?v=glance (1151 words)

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