If the problem of organizing music for your Christmas party seems daunting, take a page from the book of the 17th century Duchesse de Guise and commission your own — or simply throw the products of ...

Le Nain's Nativity, the kind of painting that might have complemented Charpentier's music in the Hotel de Guise The sunrise aspect is fascinating, too, especially as text (the sun illumines only half ...

Founded in 1948, the Journal of the American Musicological Society welcomes topics from all fields of musical inquiry, including historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and ...

Le Nain's Nativity, the kind of painting that might have complemented Charpentier's music in the Hotel de Guise Charpentier's moments of seemingly small but potentially momentous drama were ideally ...