ANTOINE BOËSSET: Frescos ayres del prado PDF SCORE

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Composed by Antoine Boësset (c.1586-1643). From Quatrième livre d’airs de cour à quatre et cinq parties, Paris, Pierre Ballard, 1624.

Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre

The only two airs de cour in Spanish by Boësset are "Una musica le den" (1617); and "Frescos ayres del prado," published in two versions, polyphonic and soloist with lute accompaniment, in 1624.

The text of "Frescos ayres del prado" has concordances with 17th-century Italian manuscripts in the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence, accompanied by alfabeto guitar notation and additional stanzas, but without the vocal line.

The first version aligns with Spanish polyphony tradition and characteristics of Spanish songbooks of the time. It incorporates a mixture of textures, syllabism, changes from ternary to binary rhythm, syncopation, and the use of seguidilla, popular in early Baroque Spain.

Musically, the first part is vertical with ternary rhythm shifting to binary in the final measures, possibly conveying joy and swiftness characteristic of a bucolic atmosphere. The second part is longer, featuring contrapuntal passages, alternations of rhythms, syncopation, and dissonances describing the protagonist's sadness.

Pierre Ballard included this air in his 12th book of 'Airs de cour,' with voice and lute tablature. While the lute version retains the main melody, the string accompaniment lacks the polyphonic richness of the second verse.

References:

Baron, J. H. (1977). Secular Spanish Solo Song in Non-Spanish Sources, 1599-1640. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30(1), 20–42.

Rico Osés, C. (2014). Los "airs de cour" en español publicados en Francia 1578-1629. Cuadernos de música iberoamericana, 27, 49-69.

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