Perfection in Plainchant Pronto
[PLAINCHANT.]
Nouvelle méthode pour aprendre le plaint-chant parfaitement et en peu de tems, composée spécialement pour le diocèse de Rouen, conforme aux nouveaux livres de chants, dans laquelle se trouvent notées les proses et hymnes nouvelles. Rouen, chez Jore père et fils, [c. 1730].
8vo, pp. [2], 90, [2]; woodcut ornament to title, woodcut initial and headpiece, printed music throughout; hole to inner margin of A4 touching one word, small hole and stain to upper margin of E3, a few light marks; otherwise a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum; some marks and pen trials to covers.
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Nouvelle méthode pour aprendre le plaint-chant parfaitement et en peu de tems, composée spécialement pour le diocèse de Rouen, conforme aux nouveaux livres de chants, dans laquelle se trouvent notées les proses et hymnes nouvelles.
A seemingly unrecorded guide to plainchant compiled specifically for the diocese of Rouen, promising its readers perfection in the art in no time at all.
The anonymous author covers, inter alia, notes, tones, neumes, singing in unison, and singing Psalms, canticles, versets, epistles, kyries and glorias, hymns, and proses. Musical examples are provided throughout, including pieces for Christmas, Ascension, and All Saints.
Claude Jore (1668–1736) and his son Claude-François Jore (1699–c.1780) were a colourful pair. The father was repeatedly arrested, for trafficking forbidden books between Rouen and Paris, and for printing banned works. The son earned himself a stay in the Bastille for clandestinely printing works by Voltaire; he later traded in balms and remedies in Amsterdam, and ended his career giving French lessons in Milan.
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