Jean-Paul C. Montagnier
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (born September 28, 1965 at Lyon) is a French musicologist. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he received two first prizes in musical analysis (1988, professor: Claude Ballif) and music history (1989, professor: Yves Gérard), before completing a PhD at Duke University (1994). He is currently Professor of musicology at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France),[1] Adjunct Professor at McGill University,[2] and Associate Member of the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (CNRS).[3] He is involved with Musica Gallica, an edition of the works of the musical patrimony of France. He serves on the editorial board of the Collected Works of Jean-Baptiste Lully published by Olms (Germany). He was made Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government in 2012.
He specializes in the sacred music of the French Baroque, and has extensively published in numerous international journals. In addition to several books and book chapters, he has also edited many scores and facsimiles. He is regularly invited to lecture and teach in North-American and European universities.
He is a member of several learned societies, among which the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the International Musicological Society.
His grand-father, Georges Montagnier (1892-1967), was a novelist, playwrighter and poet.
Bibliography
Books
- La vie et l’œuvre de Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772). Lyon: Aléas Editeur, 1992.
- Un mécène-musicien: Philippe d’Orléans, Régent (1674-1723). Paris: Éditions Auguste Zurfluh, 1996.
- Charles-Hubert Gervais (1671-1744), un musicien au service du Régent et de Louis XV. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2001.
- Henry Madin, Louis-Joseph Marchand: traités de contrepoint simple ou de chant sur le livre. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Paris: Société française de musicologie, 2004.
- Henry Madin (1698-1748), un musicien Lorrain au service de Louis XV. Preface by Davitt Moroney. Langres: Editions Dominique Guéniot, 2008.
- Nicolas Bernier: Principes de composition, fac-similé du manuscrit Rés. Vmb ms. 2 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Langres: Editions Dominique Guéniot, 2009.
- Georges Montagnier, Œuvres complètes. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Nancy, Langres: J.-P. C. and Ph. Montagnier, 2011.
- Georges Montagnier (1892-1967). Un écrivain lyonnais de l'entre-deux-guerres. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Nancy: J.-P. C. and Ph. Montagnier, 2013.
- The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780. The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks. Forthcoming.
Selected Articles
- "The Problems of ‘Reduced Scores’ and Performing Forces at the Chapelle Royale of Versailles during the Tenure of Henry Madin (1738-1748)," The Journal of Musicological Research 18 (1998): 63-93.
- "Charles-Hubert Gervais’s Psiché burlesque and the Birth of the Comic Cantate française," The Journal of Musicology 17 (1999): 520-545.
- "Heavenly Dissonances: the Cadential 6/4 Chord in French Grands Motets and Rameau's Theory of the Accord par supposition," Journal of Music Theory 47 (2003): 305-323.
- "Chanter Dieu en la Chapelle Royale: le grand motet et ses supports littéraires," Revue de musicologie 86 (2000): 220-263.
- "La messe polyphonique imprimée en France au XVIIIe siècle: survivance et décadence d’une tradition séculaire," Acta musicologica 77 (2005): 47-69.
- "Catholic Church Music in France," in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, ed. Simon Keefe, pp. 113–126. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- "'Plain-chant dégeneré' et fleuretis: quelle musique pour quelle prière?," Acta musicologica 83 (2011): 223-243.
- "Französische Sonderformen, 1600 bis ca. 1730," and "Französische Sonderformen, ca. 1730 bis 1800," in Enzyklopädie der Kirchenmusik, ed. Wolfgang Bretschneider, Günther Massenkeil, and Matthias Schneider. Bd. 2, Geschichte der Kirchenmusik, ed. Wolfgang Hochstein, and Christoph Krummacher, pp. 105–109, 287-291. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2012.
- "Un motet, deux auteurs, un copiste: les Cantate Domino ChG.36 et HM.12 de Charles-Hubert Gervais et Henry Madin," Revue de musicologie 97 (2011): 29-360.
Selected Scholarly Editions
- Charles-Hubert Gervais, Super flumina Babilonis. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. “Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era” no. 84. Madison, WI: A.R. Editions, Inc., 1998.
- André Campra, Messe de mort. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. London: Ernst Eulenburg, 2002.
- Pierre Tabart, Œuvres complètes. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Versailles: Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, 2002.
- Henry Madin, Les Messes. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Versailles: Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, 2003.
- Charles-Hubert Gervais, Miserere. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 2004.
- Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. London: Ernst Eulenburg, 2007.
- Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les Cantates. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Rameau Opera Omnia III.1. Paris, Cassel: Société Jean-Philippe Rameau, Bärenreiter, 2008.
- André Campra, De profundis. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 2015.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully, Dies iræ, Benedictus, Miserere. Œuvres complètes Lully. Edited by J.-P. C. Montagnier. Hidelsheim: George Olms, forthcoming.
References
- ↑ http://crulh.univ-lorraine.fr/content/crulh-jean-paul-montagnier
- ↑ "Jean-Paul Montagnier, Adjunct Faculty". McGill University. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ http://www.iremus.cnrs.fr/fr/membres-associes/jean-paul-montagnier