ABSTRACT
The author’s 1977 dissertation was published in three volumes in 1979 as French Harpsichord Music of the Seventeenth Century. By 1990, seven additional sources had been uncovered and were inventoried in an appendix to A Catalogue of French Harpsichord Music, 1699–1780. Since that time, twenty-one more sources, some of which include original French harpsichord music and some of which have harpsichord transcriptions of French music for other media, have come to light, for a total of twenty-eight sources not discussed in the original catalogue. The present study gives a fresh overview of the entire repertory as we now know it, integrating the new information into the old. For those sources that have been treated to detailed inventories elsewhere, a summary of the provenance and contents will be given, with a citation to the full discussion. For the nine sources that have not been treated to an exhaustive inventory, such detail will be provided here. The 1979 catalogue has become the standard reference work in the field, and it is safe to say that no one does research in seventeenth-century French harpsichord music (and related repertories) without using it. This study is an indispensable supplement to it.
