07-15-2023, 11:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-16-2023, 03:26 PM by Paul Ferguson.)
By Julie Pinel (fl. 1710-1737).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Pinel
"Alongside the importance placed on the art of conversation in the eighteenth century, salon society took an amateur’s interest in science and philosophy. Also
prevalent in this period, was the continued significance of the pursuit of gold. This was observed in literature also, and it became a common theme found in
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century airs. The air à boire, ‘Pour guérir sans retour la vive bléssure’, whose text was written by an anonymous author, illustrates this...
As well as the loose reference to alchemy in the air à boire discussed above, ‘Ah que l’homme est sçavant’ presents us with a particularly unusual air on this very topic. The text, by Pinel, clearly points to alchemy, through its basic description of the alchemic process:
L’on fixe le mercure on a beau me le dire,
Dans un creuset je vois mettre de l’or
Et de soufleur confus jamais ne l’en retire."
Quoted from a thesis about Julie by Corisha Brain:
https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handl...olume1.pdf
Sheet music here:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Nouveau_recueil_d...%2C_Julie)
Recording of some of her music here:
https://ladm.org/product/pleasures-pinel/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Pinel
"Alongside the importance placed on the art of conversation in the eighteenth century, salon society took an amateur’s interest in science and philosophy. Also
prevalent in this period, was the continued significance of the pursuit of gold. This was observed in literature also, and it became a common theme found in
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century airs. The air à boire, ‘Pour guérir sans retour la vive bléssure’, whose text was written by an anonymous author, illustrates this...
As well as the loose reference to alchemy in the air à boire discussed above, ‘Ah que l’homme est sçavant’ presents us with a particularly unusual air on this very topic. The text, by Pinel, clearly points to alchemy, through its basic description of the alchemic process:
L’on fixe le mercure on a beau me le dire,
Dans un creuset je vois mettre de l’or
Et de soufleur confus jamais ne l’en retire."
Quoted from a thesis about Julie by Corisha Brain:
https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handl...olume1.pdf
Sheet music here:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Nouveau_recueil_d...%2C_Julie)
Recording of some of her music here:
https://ladm.org/product/pleasures-pinel/