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Théodore Nisard's “Accompagnement du plain-chant” from “Dictionnaire Liturgique, Historique et Théorique de Plain-Chant et de Musique d'église au moyen age dans les temps modernes” (1854): An English translation
Abstract
Joseph Louis d'Ortigue (1802-1866), a music critic in Paris beginning in 1829, succeeded Hector Berlioz as a writer for the Journal des dèbats. He first published writings on opera, but after 1840 because of a fascination with religious music, especially chant, he devoted himself to the study of this genre, eventually undertaking his Dictionnaire Liturgique, Historique et Théorique de Plain-Chant et de Musique d’église au moyen age et dans les temps modernes (1854). For this work he commissioned Théodore Nisard, also known as Abbé Théodule Elzéar Xavier Normand, a Belgian organist and editor, to write a treatise on organ accompaniment of plain-chant. Nisard discusses basic rules of contrapuntal accompaniment of plain-chant according to theorists from earlier periods up to his present day. He includes numerous musical examples that provide much information about different manners and concepts for accompanying chant.
Subject Area
Music
Recommended Citation
Holbrook, Gerald Wayne, "Théodore Nisard's “Accompagnement du plain-chant” from “Dictionnaire Liturgique, Historique et Théorique de Plain-Chant et de Musique d'église au moyen age dans les temps modernes” (1854): An English translation" (2006). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI3237873.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI3237873