The first four musical settings of
Marot's Psalm poems
On this page you can download PDF scores of
the first polyphonic settings of Psalmtexts by Marot [(scroll down)] and
listen to recordings (streaming audio) of these compositions. If
available, also an image of the original print is added. Background about the
First polyphonic settings of Psalms is on a
separate page
[et ici en français].
Of course there is much more than these four... Many based on the Geneva
melodies (Goudimel etc..). On a separate page I provide one example of
how this music might sound, psalm 137 performed by
the
Ensemble Walsingham.
Members of the
Antwerp Collegium Musicum (own recording)
Estans assis aux rives aquatiques
secunda pars: Las dismes nous
tertia pars: Mais donc Seigneur
2.
Appenzeller, Du fons de ma pensee, (Ps. 130) - 1542 (4/5vv)
Ensemble Clément
Janequin, dir. Dominique Visse (CD Psaumes et chansons de la Réforme
- HMF)
Du fons de ma pensee
secunda pars: Si ta rigueur expresse
tertia pars: En Dieu je me consolle
tertia pars: Que Israel en Dieu fonde
3. Gentian,
Du fons de ma pensee, (Ps. 130) - 1544 (4vv)
Members of the
Antwerp Collegium Musicum (own recording)
Du fons de ma pensee
secunda pars: En Dieu je me consolle
tertia pars: Qu'israel en Dieu fone
4.
Manchicourt, Du fons de ma pensee, (Ps. 130) - 1544 (4vv)
Currende Consort
[Katelijne van Laethem (soprano) & Jan van Elsacker (tenor)], dir. Erik van
Nevel (CD Philippe Rogier en Spanje - Eufoda 1161)
Du fons de ma pensee
secunda pars: En Dieu je me consolle
NOTE
concerning the recordings
Abel and
Gentian: On the occasion of the
14th C.A. Mayer Memorial lecture (11/11/11) in London, I organised a
recording of the first polyphonic musical setting of a Psalmtext by Clément
Marot: Psalm 137. The British Library owns a unique copy of this music
(opening contribution to Jacques Moderne's Parangon des chansons, livre
VI). Based on the partbooks (i.c. one book, with all four voices
on two adjacent pages, two upside down...) a transcription was made by
Willem Ceuleers and the
music recorded by
6 members of the
Antwerps Collegium Musicum
(in Dutch). We did not make a professional recording but a home-made, no
sound manipulation, no reverbation, since this really is 'chamber music'. it
is sung by a soprano, a baryton and played by a consort of viols
(viole da gamba) performed
"über dem Tisch"... At the same session we also recorded
another polyphonic setting of a Psalmtext of Marot. The Manchicourt
and
Appenzeller are existing recordings, made by professionals.
