Sujet
BNF, catalogue :
Objet
"Bocan - forme courante.
Nationalité : France.
Naissance : 1580? -
Mort : 1655?
Maître à danser, violoniste et compositeur.
Forme(s) rejetée(s) :
< Cordier, Jacques (1580?-1655?)
< Bocham pseudonyme
< Bocquain pseudonyme
< Bocquam pseudonyme
< Boucan pseudonyme."
Utilisateur
AS
Sujet
grovemusic
Objet
MARGARET M. McGOWAN : "Cordier, Jacques", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 10 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Cordier, Jacques [Bocan, Bocham, Bocquain, Bocquam, Boucan]
(b Lorraine, c1580; d ?Paris, before 1655). French violinist, dancing-master and composer. He was widely known by the name Bocan and variants of it. He worked for a time in England. In 1612 he was a musician in the service of James I's queen, Anne of Denmark. He played in court masques such as Jonson's Love Freed from Ignorance (1611) and Campion's Lord's Masque (1614). He later returned to France and became dancing-master to the royal family. He accompanied Queen Henrietta Maria to London in 1625 but was obliged to return to France in 1628. In records for 1655, his wife was listed as a widow.
Although deformed and apparently untutored in music he played both the rebec and the violin; his natural gifts and buoyant playing were so extraordinary that he was always fashionable, and he received high praise from Mersenne (Harmonie universelle, 1636–7, ‘Traité des instruments à cordes’, i/2). A branle by Cordier (his only surviving work) is in François de Chancy's Tablature de mandore (Paris, 1629); it was alleged that the final entrée of the Ballet du grand bal de la douairière de Billebahaut (1626) satirized his compositions.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Ecorcheville: Vingt suites d'orchestre du XVIIe siècle français (Paris, 1906/R).
I. Spink: ‘The Musicians of Queen Henrietta-Maria’, AcM, xxxvi (1964), 177–82.
M. Benoit: Dictionnaire de la musique en France au 17e et 18e siècles (Paris, 1992), 76.
D.J. Buch: Dance Music from the Ballets de cour, 1575–1651 (New York, 1993)."
Utilisateur
AS