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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2002-03 Season > Concerts > The Nations of the VoiceFriday November 22, 2002, 8:00 pm Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours[a] 400, rue Saint-Paul Est — Vieux-Montréal, Québec [métro
Champ-de-Mars] Cantatas by Telemann, Scarlatti, Delalande 
The human voice, in choirs or solos, has for centuries served as the model par excellence of the art of sound. By combining text and melody, the voice can both articulate and express the essentials of a civilization. During the Baroque era, the goal of the arts was, above all, to seduce and move, and various rhetoric devices were used to achieve this end. In music, both in France and in Germany, the voice was used, in combination with instruments to express the most diverse passions; and it was the voice that instruments aspired to imitate. |