Tag: music history

  • Hunted, or Charpentier’s Mythic Appropriations

    Hunted, or Charpentier’s Mythic Appropriations

    David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) “I am he who, born in another age, was known during the last century.” So begins a despairing Marc-Antoine Charpentier in his Epitaphium Carpentarii, or musical epitaph. For much of his life, he believed that he was little more than a glorified chorister for the Duchesse de Guise, despite his training in…