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Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection
Direct access at: http://www.digital.library.unt.edu/browse/department/music/jblc/
Welcome
Welcome to the Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection at the University of North Texas Music Library.
This Website was conceived in 1996 both as a multimedia thematic catalog of the UNT Music Library's collection of early editions of operas and ballets by the French Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), and as a nucleus for collecting information useful to anyone studying those works. A pilot version of the Lully Web Project has been on the web since 1997.
With the assistance of a grant from TexShare, we have since scanned the scores and present here full-text versions of all of the volumes in the collection.
The navigation bar above will help you travel throughout the site. "About" will provide you with an overview of the print collection that forms the basis of this site, a history of the web project, and credits. "Browse" will allow you to see all of the titles in the collection and lead you to information about each work, including scanned versions of the complete scores. "Reference" provides general information and includes biographies, a bibliography, a discography, a glossary, a catalog of all of the graphics used in the site, an index of the sound examples recorded for this project, and information to clarify the physical descriptions of works.
In his position service to Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully played a significant role in the development of French opera. His works remained historically important during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and have fueled a revival of French baroque music. We hope that this collection of first and second edition prints - themselves a witness to Lully's popularity in the seventeenth century - will continue to provoke interest into the twenty-first.
Due to server issues, we will be unable to provide entire works on PDF - we ask for your patience as we address this problem.