Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1

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The Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings & timpani No. 1 (Suite De Symphonies, Première Suite de Symphonies) is a composition by Jean-Joseph Mouret.[1][2] The first movement of this piece, the rondeau, is widely known and commonly used in weddings, and notably on the PBS program Masterpiece.[3] Mouret composed this piece in 1729, while being the director for the Concert Spirituel, which was one of the first concert series known in existence.

Structure

This piece is a four-movement work that consists of the Rondeau, which is a piece of music where the main theme or melody is repeated several times throughout; the second movement is the Gracieusement sans lenteur; the third movement is the Allegro; the final movement being the Guay.[4]

Background and premiere

The Symphony was written for

King Louis XV in the Palace of Versailles.[5]

Fanfare-Rondeau Legacy

This rondeau from the first Suite de Symphonies is well known as the theme from Masterpiece Theatre,[6] and remains popular at weddings.[7]

In 1991 rondeau was part of the soundtrack for the video game Civilization as the 'English theme'.

In 2008, the first four episodes of Boing Boing Video's SPAMasterpiece Theater opened with a chiptune remix of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson as a parody of Masterpiece Theatre.[8]

Between June and September 2020, the song was used as the opening to the "Word Play" vocabulary short films on Nickelodeon's NOGGIN SVOD channel/app.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Banjo Newsletter".
  2. ^ "Virtually Baroque: Mouret--Trumpet Fanfare". www.virtuallybaroque.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ISBN 1285546229
  4. ^ a b Morita, Patsy. "Jean-Joseph Mouret: Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings & timpani No. 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  5. ^ N.A. "Premiere suite De Symphonies". The Broadway Bach Ensemble. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  6. ^ "Rondeau. Fanfare from Masterpiece Theatre sheet music by Jean-Joseph Mouret".
  7. ^ "Mouret - Rondeau (Classical Guitar) by James Barrow - PremiumBeat".
  8. ^ Jardin, Xeni (November 4, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV: V1V4 M3X1CO". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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