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Jean Baptiste
Lully
Baroque Era Composer

About him

Lully was born in 28

November 1632 in
Florence Italy (Grand
Duchy of Tuscany), to
a family of Millers

Died 22 March 1687 in Paris,

from blood poisoning after
striking a toe with the stick
he use for directing
performances. He refused to
have his leg amputated so
he could still dance. This
resulted in gangrene
propagating through his
body and ultimately
infecting the greater part of
his brain, causing his death.

Paris

His instruments

violin, guitar & harpsichord

he was also a French
composer, and dancer who
spent most of his life
working in the court of
Louis XIV of France.

His skills

His general education and his musical training

during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but
his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated
a quill pen with ease.
1653- He made instrumental music
1656- Became Director of small royal orchestra
where he made them into a high precision group
1657- he was a ballet composer
1661- joint superintendent of music and chamber
composer
1662- music master to the royal family

His works

Operas (Tragdies en
musique)Edit
Cadmus et Hermione (1673)
Alceste (1674)
Thse (1675)
Atys (1676)
Isis (1677)
Psych (1678)
Bellrophon (1679)
Proserpine (1680)
Perse (1682)
Phaton (1683)
PastoralesEdit
Pastorale Comique (1657)
Les ftes de l'Amour et de
Bacchus (1672)
Acis et Galate (1686)

More works

Ballets cowritten with

Jean Baptiste LullyEdit
Mascarade de la foire de
St-Germain (1652)
La nuit (1653)
Les proverbes (1654)
Le temps (1654)
Comedies (Comdies)Edit
L'Impromptu de Versailles
(1663)
Le Mariage forc (1664)
L'Amour mdecin (1665).

More Work

Petits MotetsEdit
Anima Christi
Ave Coeli
Dixit Dominus
Domine salvum regem

Other things
about Jean Lully
~ Lully was given a
conspicuous place on French
Mount Parnassus after his
death.
~ In the engraving, he stands
to the left, on the lowest level,
his right arm extended and
holding a scroll of paper with
which to beat time. (The bronze
ensemble has survived and is
part of the collections of the
Museum of Versailles.) Titon
honored Lully as: The prince of
French musicians.

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Atys, opera, LWV 53
http://youtu.be/kpfsl0s5WUg
The story is drawn from classical
literature -- in this case from Ovid's
Fasti. It tells of the tragic love of
Atys and the gentle river nymph
Sangaride;
Their love was disrupted by Queen
goddess of Cybele who is also in
love with Atys. She use magic
power to made him mad so Atys
killed Sangaride but when finally
realized what has done he tried to
kill himself but was prevented by
Cybele who later turned him to a
pine tree. The story ended in
tragedy
http://youtu.be/kpfsl0s5WUg

The opera has five scenes

Act I, proceeds to tell the story of Atys in the recitative "Retirez vous." Iris then enters and relays the message from the
goddess Cyble in "Cyble veut que Flore."
Act II

The scene of Act II is inside the temple of the goddess Cyble

Act III

The scene changes to the palace of the Sacrificateur of Cyble where Atys is alone.

Act IV

This act is set in the palace of the River Sangar with Atys and Sangaride alone.

Act V

The final act takes place in the pleasant gardens.

King Celenus finds out that the wedding plans have been cancelled and he confronts Cyble in a lengthy recitative
dialogue in Scene

MARCHES DES
MOUSQUETAIRES NOIRS
Genre - March
Melody- stepwise
Harmony- major, consonant
Rhythm- Duple simple
Texture- Homorhythm
Variation- modulation
Repetitive
Tempo- moderato
http://youtu.be/zWvfo8sC_LM

References
URL:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JeanBaptiste_Lully
Article Title:
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Website Title
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Baroque Era." The Cambridge Music

Guide Edited by Stanley Sadie with
Alison Latham. N.p.: Cambridge UP, n.d.
166-68