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Nicolas Gigault

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Nicolas Gigault (ca. 1627 – 20 August 1707) was a French Baroque organist and composer. [1]

28 relations: Allemande, Étienne Richard, Baroque, Cantus firmus, Charles Racquet, Clavichord, Composer, François Sabatier, François-Joseph Fétis, French organ school, Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Guitar, Harpsichord, Jean Titelouze, Mary, mother of Jesus, Nicolas Lebègue, Notes inégales, Organ (music), Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium, Pipe organ, Plainsong, Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, Spinet, Te Deum, Theorbo, Veni Creator Spiritus, Viol, Willi Apel.

Allemande

An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a renaissance and baroque dance, and one of the most popular instrumental dance styles in baroque music, with notable examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach and Handel.

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Étienne Richard

Étienne Richard (c. 1621 – 1669) was a French composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Cantus firmus

In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.

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Charles Racquet

Charles Racquet (1597–1664) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.

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Clavichord

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument that was used largely in the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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François Sabatier

François Sabatier (born in 1945) is a French musicologist, music historian and music educator.

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François-Joseph Fétis

François-Joseph Fétis (25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century.

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French organ school

The French organ school formed in the first half of the 17th century.

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Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (ca. 1632, Paris – 13 November 1714) was a French organist, composer and theorist.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Jean Titelouze

Jean (Jehan) Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 24 October 1633) was a French composer, poet and organist of the early Baroque period.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Nicolas Lebègue

Nicolas Lebègue (also Le Bègue; c. 16316 July 1702) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Notes inégales

In music, notes inégales (French: unequal notes) refers to a performance practice, mainly from the Baroque and Classical music eras, in which some notes with equal written time values are performed with unequal durations, usually as alternating long and short.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium

"Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium" is a Medieval Latin hymn written by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

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Plainsong

Plainsong (also plainchant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.

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Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris

The Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs (Église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs) is a Catholic church in Paris' Third arrondissement.

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Spinet

A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.

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Te Deum

The Te Deum (also known as Ambrosian Hymn or A Song of the Church) is an early Christian hymn of praise.

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Theorbo

The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck and a second pegbox.

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Veni Creator Spiritus

"Veni Creator Spiritus" ("Come Creator Spirit") is a hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus in the 9th century.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Willi Apel

Willi Apel (October 10, 1893 – March 14, 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Gigault

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