L'acord des nations par le moien de la paix

Licherie de Beuron, Louis (1629-1687) (style copy of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1679

Technique / Medium:

engraving

Description

Group of noble musicians, one man playing bass viola da gamba and singing, one woman playing harpsichord and singing, one man conducting while singing with music, five women singing, and three men singing.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viol [3597] (six strings, pegs ; 9 frets ; bow partly visible)
Harpsichord [2251] (two keyboards)
Guitar [3237] (nine strings, only four frets visible, tuning pegs not visible, plucked with fingers, waisted.)

Musical works

M.D.M. -- Vive le Royillegible music notation
Work is a quatrain, signed M.D.M. Alternate title of work: Song of Glorification of King Louis XIV.

Bibliographic references

Mirimonde, Albert P. de. L'iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons: La musique dans les arts plastique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles). I (Paris: Picard, 1975) 25, pl. VI, no. 10. RILM 1976-8564.

RIdIM record id

1013