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Marie-Charlotte Vendôme, François Moria and Music Engraving in the Choix de Chansons

One of the remarkable aesthetic features of the Choix de Chansons was that it was entirely engraved, meaning that no moveable type was used. The musical notation, words and images were all created by burin engravers.1 In the case of the text and music, this was achieved by artisans in the very specialized metier of […]

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Music and Music-making in Laborde’s Chansons pittoresques

One of the most remarkable publications of the later eighteenth century is the four-volume Choix de chansons compiled by Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (1734–1794), fermier général and premier valet du chambre to Louis XV.1 Published in 1773 and dedicated to the Dauphine, Marie Antoinette, this deluxe set is a multi-authored collection of music, text, and image. […]

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Chansons Pittoresque: The Subscription Prospectus for Choix de Chansons

In June 1772, Jean-Benjamin de Laborde published a prospectus announcing ‘an absolutely new kind’ of publication of what he called chansons pittoresque [picturesque songs]. While there seemed to be new collections of songs published all the time, he wrote, Laborde’s Choix de Chansons would differ by presenting a combination of image, music, and text. This […]

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Performing Transdisciplinarity

The Enlightenment was the golden age of book illustration in France. Traditionally, studies of eighteenth-century illustrated books were the province of amateurs and bibliophiles who delighted in deluxe editions and wrote of the engravings they contained as splendid rococo follies, reflecting the decorative impulse of a lost courtly age. This approach, however, has marginalized the […]

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S.1.01 Le Portrait Reconnu, Transcription, Translation

IDans un des Bosquets de sa Mére,[1]L’aîné des amours [2] assemblatout le peuple aîlé de Cythére,que de fripons se trouvaient là! [3]Psiché, dit-il, m’avait sû plaire;un autre me tient sous ses loix:Par le portrait que j’en vais faire,devinez l’objet de mon choix.Par le portrait que j’en vais faire,devinez l’objet de mon choix. IISon front annonce […]

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Choix de Chansons, Chantilly Cover to Cover

Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

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This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (Performing Transdisciplinarity DP170102666).

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