Jean d'Estrée
Jean d'Estrée
Genres: early baroque, french, early music, 16th century, renaissance dance
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About Jean d'Estrée
Between 1559 and 1564, Jean d'Estrée, a professional musician ("joueur de Hautbois du Roy") edited and arranged dance music for the Parisian publisher, Nicolas du Chemin. In Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie, published in Langres in 1589, Arbeau suggests to his pupil, Capriol, that he look in the books of music printed by Pierre Attaignant and by Nicolas du Chemin in Paris for more music for basses dances and pavans. Attaignant's dance books are extant and have been published both in facsimile and in modern editions. Of Jean d'Estrée's dance music published by Nicolas du Chemin, only the superius and bassus parts of the first three books, and only the bassus part of the fourth book survive. Although this music was essentially reprinted by Pierre Phalèse in 1571, the special relationship between Jean d'Estrée's dance music and the unique source of French choreographies for this period, Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie, has led me to transcribe the extant parts of the dance music of Jean d'Estrée.
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