© Copyright 2005 Lionel Sawkins
Select Bibliography
of writings by Lionel Sawkins, relating to
the French Baroque
A. Contributions to Dictionaries,
Catalogues
Citations and locations of the Grands Motets of
Lalande for RISM, Einzeldrucke vor
1800, 1976.
410 citations for: Catalogue du Grand Motet Français (ed. J. Mongrédien) (Saur), 1984.
80 articles for the following dictionaries:
Dictionnaire de l’Art vocal (ed. M. Honegger) (Bordas), 1992.
Dictionnaire de la Musique en France aux
XVIIe & XVIIIe siècles (ed.
M. Benoit) (Fayard), 1992.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (ed. S. Sadie) (Macmillan), 1992.
The Viking Opera Guide (ed. A. Holden) [section ‘Lully’]
(Penguin), 1993.
The New Grove Dictionary, (ed. S. Sadie) (Macmillan), 2nd ed., 2001.
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), revised edition, 2003.
B. Books, Articles, Published Papers (in chronological order)
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‘Lalande and the Concert Spirituel’, The Musical Times,
cxvi (April 1975), 333-5.
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‘An Encore to the Lexicographer’s dilemma, or de
Lalande et du Bon Sens’, Fontes
Artis Musicae xxviii/4 (1981),
319-23 (Response by James R. Anthony, FAM xxix/3 (1982),
141.
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‘New sources of Rameau’s Pigmalion and other
works’, Early Music, 11/4 (October, 1983), 490-6.
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‘Rameau’s last years: some implications of
re-discovered material at Bordeaux’, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 111 (1984-85), 66-91.
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‘The brothers Bêche: an anecdotal history of court
music’, Recherches sur la
musique française classique,
XXIV (1986), 192-221.
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‘Nouvelles sources inédites de trois oeuvres de
Rameau: leur signification pour l’instrumentation et
l’interprétation du chant’,
Jérôme de La Gorce (ed.), Jean-Philippe Rameau [Actes
du Colloque, 1983], Paris, Genève, 1987, 171-200.
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‘For and against the order of Nature: who sang the
Soprano?’, Early Music, 15/3 (August, 1987), 315-24. [with Table d’agréments from Levesque & Bêche, Solfèges d’Italie]
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‘Chronology and evolution of the grand motet at the court of
Louis XIV: evidence from the Livres
du Roi and the works of Perrin, the sous-maîtres
and Lully’, J.H. Heyer (ed.), Jean-Baptiste Lully and the music of the French
Baroque, Cambridge, 1989, 41-79.
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‘Voltaire, Rameau, Rousseau: a fresh look at La princesse de Navarre and its revival in Bordeaux in 1763’, Transactions of the Seventh International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Budapest, 1987, Oxford, 1989, III, 1334-40.
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‘Classic and Baroque: Paris and the Esterházy
court’, Haydn Society of
Great Britain Newsletter, 10,
Lancaster, 1990, 5-17.
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‘Lully’s Motets: Source, Edition and
Performance’, Jérôme de La Gorce &
Herbert Schneider (eds.), Jean-Baptiste
Lully: Actes du Colloque 1987, Laaber, 1990, 383-403.
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‘Source criticism in French baroque music: new
perspectives’, Tradition and
its future in music: Report of SIMS 1990 Osaka, Tokyo/Osaka, 1990, 67-74.
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‘Michel-Richard de Lalande’ [with programme notes],
Philippe Beaussant, (ed.), Journées
M.-R. de Lalande à Versailles,
Versailles, 1990.
n The Sacred Music of Michel-Richard de Lalande
(1657-1726), PhD thesis, University
of London, 1993.
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‘A French bonbon for the Spanish Bourbons: Royer’s Zaïde, reine de Grenade’, Revista de
Musicología, (Actes du
Colloque du XVe Congrès de la Société
Internationale de Musicologie, Madrid, 1992), 16/5 (1993),
2988-3003.
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‘Doucement &
Légèrement : Tempo in
French Baroque music’ Early
Music, 21/3 (August, 1993), 365-74.
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‘ …à
l’admiration de tout Paris:
Lalande’s sacred music for women’s voices’,
in Frank Callaway (ed.), Essays in
Honour of David Evatt Tunley, Perth,
1995, 73-90.
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Review of: Denise Launay, La
musique religieuse en France du Concile de Trente à 1804, in Journal of the
Royal Musical Association, 120(2),
1995, 281-7.
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‘Trembleurs and Cold People: how should they shiver?’,
Michael Burden (ed.), Performing
the music of Henry Purcell, Oxford
(Oxford University Press), 1996, 243-64.
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‘Brossard - musicologist, lexicographer or
musician?’, in Jean Duron (ed.), Sébastien de Brossard, Musicien, Versailles (Editions du Centre de Musique
Baroque, Editions Klincksieck), 1998, 231-7.
n Journées Michel-Richard de Lalande,
Automne 2001, Versailles, 2001.
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‘Italian influence in the grands
motets of Desmarest & Lalande up
to 1699’, in Henry Desmarest
(1661-1741), Exils d’un musicien dans l’Europe du
Grand Siècle, Mardaga/CMBV,
2004, 301-6.
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Reviews of various editions and recordings of French Baroque
music in Early Music, Early Music
News, The Consort, Revue de Musicologie, and Journal of the
Royal Musical Association.
NOW PUBLISHED:
A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of
Michel-Richard de Lalande 1657-1726
assisted by John Nightingale and with the
support of the British Academy
Oxford University Press, Oxford, December 2005.
Contains 3,180 music examples, 750 pages.
Lionel Sawkins's monumental 750-page
Thematic Catalogue of Lalande's music, the product of 35 years
work, has just been published by Oxford University Press and
has been described as 'a truly beautiful book' which 'makes
Lalande's compositions fully accessible to musicians,
musicologists and music lovers, with over 3,000 music examples,
details of performing requirements, and of all source
materials'. This Catalogue is the cornerstone on which
authoritative performances and recordings of Lalande's music
will need to be based, and underlines the fundamental role
played by music scholars in enabling baroque and other early
music to be accessible to the music-loving public. Without a
reliable edition of a baroque work on the music stands,
performers and recording companies cannot even begin to
rehearse.
Forthcoming:
Lalande et ses contemporains
(Actes du Colloque Lalande International:
Versailles 2001)
Hommage à Marcelle Benoit
Edited and with three articles by
Lionel Sawkins, and eleven others by distinguished French
Baroque scholars. (Paris, Editions des Abbesses, in the press).
‘En Province, à Versailles et
au Concert spirituel: reception, diffusion et exécution
des motets de Lalande au XVIIIe siècle’
(An article by Lionel Sawkins originally
given as a paper at a Colloque organised by the
Société française de musicologie in
Toulouse, in 2000, soon to appear in Revue de Musicologie.)
© Copyright 2005 Lionel Sawkins