Editing Marc-Antoine Charpentier (section)

==Bibliography==

===Biography===
* [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns, Camille]], ''Au courant de la vie'', Un contemporain de Lully, chapitre 1, édition Dorbon-Ainé 1914, report édition Wentworth Press, Scholar sélect 2018.
* Crussard, Claude (1893–1947), ''Un musicien français oublié, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1634–1704'', Paris, Librairie Floury, 1945.
* Lowe, Robert W, ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier et l'opéra de collège'', Paris, G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966, 195 p.
*Cessac, Catherine. ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier''. Translated from the French ed. (Paris 1988) by E. Thomas Glasow. Portland (Oregon): Amadeus Press, 1995.
*Cessac, Catherine, ed., ''Marc-Antoine Charpentier, un musicien retrouvé'' (Sprimont: Mardaga, 2005), a collection of pioneering works originally disseminated in the ''Bulletin Charpentier'', 1989–2003. The bulk of the articles deal with his life and works: his family and its origins, Italy and Italianism at the Hôtel de Guise, his work for the Jesuits, the sale of his manuscripts, plus background information about specific works.
*Cessac, Catherine, ed., ''Les Manuscrits autographes de Marc-Antoine Charpentier'' (Wavre: Mardaga, n.d.), papers presented at the conference held at Versailles, 2004. The articles in this volume focus primarily on what scholars can deduce from the 28 autograph volumes that contain his compositions.
*Ranum, Patricia M. "A Sweet Servitude: A musician's life at the court of Mlle de Guise," ''Early Music'', 15 (1987), pp.&nbsp;347–60.
*Ranum, Patricia M. "Lully Plays Deaf: Rereading the Evidence on his Privilege," in John Hajdu Heyer, ed., ''Lully Studies'' (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.&nbsp;15–31, which focuses on Charpentier's powerful contacts.
*{{Cite book|first=Patricia M.|last=Ranum|title=Portraits Around Marc-Antoine Charpentier|publisher=Dux Femina Facti|location=Baltimore|year=2004|isbn=978-0-9660997-3-7|url=http://ranumspanat.com/charpentier_intro.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515013400/http://ranumspanat.com/charpentier_intro.html|archive-date=15 May 2009}}

===Music history and theory===
* {{cite book | last=Anthony | first=James R. | title=French baroque music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau | publisher=Amadeus Press | publication-place=Portland, Ore. | date=1997 | isbn=1-57467-021-2 | oclc=35298622}}
* {{cite book | last=Hitchcock | first=H. Wiley | title=Les œuvres de Marc-Antoine Charpentier : catalogue raisonné = The works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier | publisher=Picard | publication-place=Paris | date=1982 | isbn=2-7084-0084-3 | oclc=9683157 |language=fr}}
* {{cite book | last1=Lasocki | first1=David | last2=Charpentier | first2=Marc-Antoine | title=Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the flûte recorder or traverso? |publisher=Instant Harmony | publication-place=Portland, Oregon | date=2018 | isbn=978-1-5483-0374-7 | oclc=1162813991}}
* {{cite book | last=Thomas | first=Downing A. | title=Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge | date=2002 | isbn=0-521-80188-5 | oclc=49530155}}
* {{cite book | last=Tunley | first=David | title=The eighteenth century French cantata | publisher=Clarendon Press | publication-place=Oxford [England] | date=1997 | isbn=0-19-816439-4 | oclc=35559214}}
* {{cite book | last=Thompson | first=Shirley | title=New perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier | publisher=Ashgate | publication-place=Farnham, Surrey, England | date=2010 | isbn=978-0-7546-6579-3 | oclc=319318911}}
* {{cite book | last1=Cessac | first1=Catherine | last2=Ranum | first2=Patricia M. | title=Les Histoires sacrées de Marc-Antoine Charpentier : origines, contextes, langage, interprétation : hommage à Patricia M. Ranum |publisher=Brepols | publication-place=Turnhout, Belgium | date=2016 | isbn=978-2-503-56968-0 | oclc=962330865 | language=fr}}