ANTOINE BOËSSET: N'espérez plus, mes yeux (Embellished by Moulinié, Le Bailly and Boësset) PDF SCORE

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Composed by Antoine Boësset (1586-1643). Ornamented versions from L'Harmonie universelle de M. Mersenne, Paris, 1636-1637). Lute accompaniment from Airs de cour avec la tablature de luth, Paris, Robert Ballard, 1643.

Nigel Rogers, tenor
Anthony Bailes, lute

In the present edition, the original note values have in certain instances been altered to conform to the lute accompaniment, representing one possible hypothetical reading. Boësset’s diminutions, originally set to the second stanza, are here assigned to the third.

Pierre de Nyert, a French nobleman, singer, and teacher, was one of the leading performers of airs de cour. He visited Rome in 1633 and returned to Paris two years later with the Italian style.

Nyert claimed that diminutions, which he had studied in Italy, should be reserved for the second and subsequent verses of an air, and that they should be closely allied to the meaning and structure of the poetry.

Fortunately, Marin Mersenne preserved a valuable example of French ornamentation in his Harmonie Universelle (1636–37): Antoine de Boësset’s air “N’espérez plus, mes yeux” appears in three ornamented versions—one by Boësset himself, and others by Le Bailly and Moulinié.

Reference:
Companion to Baroque Music. (1998). United States: University of California Press.