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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (ca. 1601 - 1672) is considered the father of the French harpsichord school, a style of playing that reached its zenith in the works of François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau - and he was the first musician to hold the position of "Harpsichordist of the King".

To the pay of six hundred livres (pounds) he added, around 1650, a pension of one thousand crowns drawn on the royal treasury, which is an indication of the esteem he then enjoyed. He published two books of works for solo harpsichord in 1670, and a number of other pieces survive in various manuscripts. In addition to his activities as a composer Chambonnières was also an accomplished teacher; among his pupils were many of the most important players and composers of the time: the three Couperin brothers, Jaques Hardel, one of the Gautiers, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Nicolas Lebègue, Robert Cambert and Guillaume Gabriel Nivers.

Chambonnières showed the desire, never realized, to seek his fortune at the court of Queen Christina of Sweden. To this end, Constantijn Huygens was enlisted to pave the way for him there. Meanwhile, his current position at the French court was jeopardized by a nearly successful plot to force Chambonnières to resign in favor of his student Louis Couperin. The loyal refusal of Couperin to displace Chambonnières could only have sprung from high personal regard. In 1662 he finally found himself abruptly deprived of his pension. As a result he sold his post to his pupil d'Anglebert for 2000 pounds. Chambonnières held his engagements, but the services were covered by d'Anglebert; Chambonnières no longer appeared at court, in the concerts or the ballets.

Chambonnières was famous early quite in his life: Marin Mersenne, a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics", described his playing as distinguished by delicacy and subtlety of touch, fleetness without display, and imaginative embellishment: "Each time he played a piece he mingled in new beauties ports de voix, passages and various ornaments, with doubles cadences".
A little later Mersenne praised him even more highly: "After listening to the harpsichord played by the Sieur de Chambonnières... I can only express my feeling by saying that one should hear nothing afterwards, whether one desires lovely melodies and fine accompanying parts mingled together, beauty of rhythm, fine touch or lightness and speed of hand... it can be said that this instrument has met its ultimate master."

The works of Chambonnières have been preserved for us in two engraved volumes and in several manuscripts. The Bauyn Manuscript (ca 1690) in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris is considered one of the most important sources of French keyboard music of the seventeenth century. This single source brings together 350 pieces, most written for the harpsichord, and is organized into three sections, the first consecrated entirely to Chambonnières, the second to Louis Couperin, and the third to various composers like Johann Jakob Froberger, Jaques Hardel and Henry Du Mont.

Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B Minor (BWV 232)
Matthäuspassion (BWV 244)
Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046-1051)Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 (1945)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin and piano No. 8, Op. 30/3
Sonata for violin and piano No. 9, Op. 47
Sonata for violin and piano No. 10, Op. 96
String Quartet No 7 in F Opus 59/1 'Rasumovsky'
Symphony No. 2, Op. 36
Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 'Eroica'Hector Berlioz - Les Nuits d'été
Georges Bizet - Symphony in C
Johannes Brahms - Quintet in B minor Op. 115
Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 5, WAB105
Symphony No. 7 in EErnest ChaussonChanson perpétuelle
Poème Op. 25Frédéric Chopin
Scherzo Op. 20
Sonata No. 3 Op. 58
Barcarolle Op. 60
Polonaise Op. 61James Dillon - Andromeda
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony 9 in E Minor (Op. 95)
César Franck - Quatuor en Ré Majeur FWV9
Gabriel Fauré - Quintette pour piano et cordes No 1 Op 89
Philip Glass - Satyagraha
Osvaldo Golijov
Yiddishbbuk (1992)
Coral del Arrecife from Oceana (1996)
Mariel (1999)
Demos Gracias from La Pasión Según San Marcos (2000)
Lullaby and Doina (2001)
Tenebrae (2002)
Levante (2004)Joseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn – Die Schöpfung Hob XXI/2
Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major (Hob. VIIa:4)Hespèrion XXI - Don Quixote de la Mancha
Aaron Jay Kernis - Double Concerto for Violin & Guitar
György Ligeti – San Francisco Polyphony (1973)
Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Symphony No. 10 in F sharp minor
Bruno Mantovani - Time Stretch
Frank Martin - Pavane couleur du temps
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 8
Piano Concerto No. 14
Piano Concerto No. 20
Concerto for piano no. 23
Piano Concerto No. 27
Concerto No.1 for violin & orchestra In Bb KV207
String Quartet No. 13 in D minor, KV173
Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425
Clarinet ConcertoJean-Philippe Rameau - Castor et Pollux
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Quatuor á cordes en fa majeur Op. 35
Pavane For A Dead PrincessCamille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3
Le Carnaval des AnimauxFranz Schubert - Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821
Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto
Dmitri ShostakovichSonata for Cello & Piano in D minor Op. 40
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 (1939)
Violin Concerto No. 1Jean SibeliusRakastava, Op. 14
Music to a Scene
A Song to SpringValentin Silvestrov
Augenblicke der poesie und der musik
Augenblicke der Erinnerung No 2
Epitaph
Erinnerung III
Hymn 2001 for strings
4 PostludesIgor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Michael Torke - Ash

This is a reminder list of artists, composers and tags that I would like to keep in mind. They are things that I may already have listened to, or things that I would like to explore in the future.

Artists

- Air Supply
- Al Stewart (new!)
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- America (new!)
- Andrew Gold
- Angela Hewitt
- Anita O'Day
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Arion Ensemble
- Astrud Gilberto
- Beau Dommage
- Ben Taylor
- Benny Goodman
- Bert Kaempfert
- Blossom Dearie
- Boston Pops
- Bruce Springsteen (new!)
- Canadian Brass
- Captain & Tennille
- Carly Simon
- Carole King
- Carpenters
- Charles Trenet
- Chicago
- Cilla Black
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Clint Holmes
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Cristina Branco
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (new!)
- Dean Martin (new!)
- Diana Krall (new!)
- Diane Tell
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Dinah Washington
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Don McLean (new!)
- Duke Ellington
- Earl Klugh
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Edward Bear
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (new!)
- Ensemble Arion
- Eric Clapton (new!)
- Eva Cassidy
- Fourplay
- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
- Fred Astaire
- Georg Friedrich Händel
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- George Duke
- George Harrison (new!)
- Georges Delerue (new!)
- Gerry Rafferty (new!)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Glenn Gould
- Glenn Miller
- Gregorio Allegri
- Henry Gross
- Henry Macini
- Henry Purcell
- Holly Cole
- Il Giardino Armonico
- James Taylor
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Johann Pachelbel
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John Coltrane (new!)
- John Lennon (new!)
- Journey (new!)
- Julie London
- Kate Taylor
- Katie Melua
- Keith Carradine
- Keith Jarrett
- Lee Ritenour
- Livingston Taylor
- Ludwig van Beethoven (new!)
- Manhattan Transfer
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Martha Argerich
- Maurane (new!)
- Melanie
- Michel Rivard
- Miles Davis (new!)
- Neil Diamond (new!)
- Neil Young (new!)
- Paul McCartney (new!)
- Paul Simon (new!)
- Petula Clark
- Pink Martini
- Poco
- Randy Newman
- Ray Charles (new!)
- Rita Coolidge
- Rupert Holmes
- Sally Taylor
- Sandi Shaw
- Sarah McLachlan (new!)
- Serendipity Singers
- Sergio Mendes
- Spyro Gyra
- Stan Getz
- Steve Miller Band (new!)
- Stevie Wonder
- Sting (new!)
- Sylvain Lelièvre
- The Doobie Brothers (new!)
- The Kinks (new!)
- The Police (new!)
- The Rooftop Singers
- The Serendipity Singers
- The Sixteen
- The Swingle Singers
- Thelonious Monk (new!)
- Tina Turner (new!)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (new!)
- Tom Petty (new!)
- Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
- Van Morrison (new!)
- Véronique Sanson (new!)
- Viktoria Mullova
- Yo-Yo Ma

Tags
- bach
- baroque
- big band
- italian baroque
- johann sebastian bach
- singer-songwriter
- renaissance
- classical period
- romantic classical
- modern classical
- contemporary classical
- boston
- burt bacharach
- canadian
- carly simon
- carole king
- celtic
- christmas song
- classic rock
- classic track
- greatest hits
- guitar
- hal david
- italian baroque
- james taylor
- jazz cover
- jazz covers
- jazz piano
- jazz vocals
- johann sebastian bach
- late lamented
- marthas vineyard
- piano
- pop
- sally taylor
- saxophone
- seen live
- singer-songwriter
- soft rock
- taylor family singers
- torch singer

Todays haul:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Concerto / Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue(*)

Arnold Bax
Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra
(Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley, piano: Joyce Hatto)

Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto / Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
(London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard, Violin: Rodney Friend, Tenor: Ian Partridge, Horn: Nicholas Busch)

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3
(Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling)
Symphony No. 9
(Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Eduard Van Beinum) (oops just realised this is mono, ah well got two other recordings anyway)

François Couperin
Les Baricades Mistérieuses (*)

Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 1
(Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson)

Cèsar Franck
Symphony Variations for Piano and Orchestra(***)

Joseph Haydn
Sonata No. 33 (*)

Darius Milhaud
Symphony No. 6 / Chansons de Ronsard
(Paula Seibel & The Louisville Orchestra conducted by Jorge Mester)
(Never heard of this guy before, was a total impulse purchase)

Anthony Newman
Chimaeras I & II (*)

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Sarabande (from "Zoroastre") (*)

Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome (**)

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A Minor (***)

Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) (**)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espanol (**)

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 4 / Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
(Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini)
Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) completed by Brian Newbould / Symphonic Fragments in D (D. 615) (orchestrated by Brian Newbould)
(Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner)

Jean Sibelius
Pelleas and Melisande / The Oceanides / Tapiola
(Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham)

*Same record, Harpsichord:Anthony Newman
**Same record, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel
***Same record, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens, Piano: Peter Katin

Total cost: £3

1. List your top 10 artists and amount of listeners to each.

01. Maaya Sakamoto- 19.087
02. Gogol Bordello- 26.008
03. Yoko Kanno- 45.785
04. ABBA- 78.243
05. Madeleine Peyroux- 16.616
06. The Flaming Lips- 189.938
07. Jean-Philippe Rameau- 360
08. the pillows- 35.746
09. Bach- 69.979
10. Ani DiFranco- 53.665

2. Add up the listeners:
535.457

3.Check what that is on the charts page, take all those bands and add up their listeners:

01. Coldplay - 391,887
02. Radiohead - 386,158
03. The Beatles - 379,325
04.Red Hot Chili Peppers - 378,227
05. Green Day - 335,177
06. Nirvana - 319,018
07. The White Stripes- 304.856
08. U2- 293.030
09. Pink Floyd- 286.659
10.System of a Down- 282.978

= 3,356,315

4. Take your score and divide by the max (x100 to get percentage):

(535.457 / 3,356,315) x 100 = 15.89%

Ahahahah Flaming Lips-189000, Rameau-360!

Post the top ten bands/artists on your profile, the first song you heard of theirs, the one you fell in love with, and your current favourite.


Maaya Sakamoto
First Song-Yakusoku wa Iranai
Fell in love with- Gravity
Current Favourite- Hemisphere

Gogol Bordello
First Song- Start Wearing Purple
Fell in love with- Start Wearing Purple
Current favourite- God-like

Yoko Kanno
First Song- Yakusoku wa Iranai
Fell in love with- where does this ocean go?
Current favourite- run rabbit junk

ABBA
First Song- Dancing Queen
Fell in love with- Dancing Queen
Current favourite- LOVERS(LIVE A LITTLE LONGER)

Madeleine Peyroux
First Song- Dance Me To The End Of Love
Fell in love with- Don't Wait Too Long
Current favourite- Between The Bars

The Flaming Lips
First Song- Do you Realize
Fell in love with- Do you Realize
Current favourite- Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Jean-Philippe Rameau
First Song- Le Rappel Des Oiseaux
Fell in love with-Le Rappel Des Oiseaux
Current favourite- Les Sauvages

the pillows
First Song- Ride on Shooting Star
Fell in love with- Hybrid Rainbow
Current favourite- Advice

Ani DiFranco
First Song- Not So Soft
Fell in love with- Not A Pretty Girl
Current favourite- What How When Where

Johann Sebastian Bach
First Song- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Fell in love with- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Current favourite- Sonata 6 in G, BWV 1019a - 3 Cembalo solo

1-Maaya Sakamoto
2-Gogol Bordello
3-Yoko Kanno
4-ABBA
5-Jean-Philippe Rameau
6-Madeleine Peyroux
7-The Flaming Lips
8-Lighthouse Family
9-Bôa
10-The Prodigy


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Hm... dance me to the end of love, I guess.

What is your favorite album by 2?
Tough question! Voi-la intruder... or underdog world strike.

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
5 is ahn, a music composer only. I mean, he has done music for operas, but I just listen to his harpsichord work.

How many times have you seen 4 live?
Unfortunately never.


What is your favorite song by 7?
Yeah yeah yeah song... or it overtakes me.


What is a great memory you have considering 10?
Prodigy made me like techno!

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
A lot! But gravity is the worst( and the best also),

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
everything in us resembles god, except for one thing and the rest of the song.

What is your favorite song by 9?
Fool

How did you get in to 3?
With anime songs!

What was the first song you heard by 1?
Yakusoku wa iranai

What is your favorite song by 4?
Lovers live a little longer

How many times have you seen 9 live?
Gahhhhh never!

What is a good memory you have concerning 2?
None. I mean, I like the songs, but I have no memory related.

Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?
Lost in space, snif, snif.

What is your favorite album of 5?
I have the compete works album.

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
No black and white in blue.

What is your favorite song by 1?
Gravity!!!! Sooooo beautiful!

What is your favorite song by 10?
Hotride.

How many times have you seen 8 live?
I never seen any of my top ten artists alive... :(

What is your favorite album by 1?
Dive

What is a great memory you have concerning 9?
No great or small memory.

What was the first song you heard by 8?
Loving every minute.

What is your favorite cover by 2?
Voi-la intruder

Hi guys, most of my friends were asking me about the soundtrack of Marie Antoinette, and especially, when each song appears.
So here is a little listing.



Opening
Natural’s Not In It

On the way to the border
Opus #17

Marie Antoinette leaves the tent, in order to meet her husband.
The Melody Of A Fallen Tree

The journey to Versailles
The Radio Dept. « I don’t like it like this »

Marie Antoinette discovers Versailles
Jynweythek Ylow »

Jean-Philippe Rameau
« Aux langueurs d’Apollon »
"1er menuet pour les guerriers et les amazones, 2ème menuet"
« Tristres apprêts, pâles flambeaux »
No idea about the RAMEAU's tracks, there's a lot of classical music in the movie, and I'm not a specialist.


Marie Antoinette organizes a picnic during the hunt
Pulling Our Weight

Marie Antoinette's reading a letter from her mother
Il Secondo Giorno Instrumental

Marie Antoinette is taking a bath
Keen on boys

The hunt
DUSTIN O’HALLORAN « Opus #23 »

Maybe the awfulest shot ever. The succession of candies, cakes (my stomach got so hurt xD), jewels, games...
Bow Wow Wow remix by KEVIN SHIELDS « I want candy »

The masked ball
Hong Kong Garden
But the intro isn't the same in the movie :-/

Meeting Fersen
Aphrodisiac

Back to Versailles
Fools Rush In remix by KEVIN SHIELDS

Louis Philippe's crowned King
Plainsong

Marie Antoinette's birthday
Ceremony

Marie Antoinette takes a bath
Tommib Help Buss

The four members of Phoenix are playing for Marie antoinette in the "petit trianon"
PHOENIX « Où boivent les loups »

Marie Antoinette and her "friends" are playing hide and seek
Kings of the Wild Frontier

Marie Antoinette alone, after Fersen's leaving.
Avril 14th

Marie Antoinette thinks about Fersen
What Ever Happened

Marie Antoinette says goodbye
DUSTIN O’HALLORAN « Opus #36 »

End credits
All Cats Are Grey
Jynweythek Ylow

marie antoinette soundtrack sofia coppola