Mémoire

Josquin Desprez, princeps musicorum, the prince of musicians, as his contemporaries called him, is best known today for his sacred works, the masses and motets, which have been widely performed and recorded. Surprisingly, his chansons have received little attention from performers, except for the pieces for five and six voices, printed after his death by the Antwerp publisher Tilman Susato in his seventh book of 1545. Doulce Mémoire has chosen to focus on the chansons for three and four voices, which are probably the earliest in the Hainault master’s output; with their diversity of language and themes (sometimes folk-derived), these songs constitute a varied programme that is at once serious and bawdy, a testament to the unequalled art of Josquin Desprez.

Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) stormed onto the Parisian literary scene with the resounding avant-garde manifesto Défense et illustration de la langue française. Ronsard and Du Bellay are the great French poets of the sixteenth century, but while the former has been set to music hundreds of times, Du Bellay inspired only about thirty compositions. Denis Raisin Dadre and his ensemble Doulce Mémoire celebrate the Angevin poet on the occasion of his 500th anniversary with works by the leading composers of the period, among them Arcadelt (who set nine chansons to his texts, including Je ne puis dissimuler a year before Du Bellay’s death), Lassus, Chardavoine and Verdonck. It was also established practice at the time to declaim poems accompanied by a musician who improvised on the lyre, an instrument and usage imported from Italy (recitare a la lira). Denis Raisin Dadre has decided to pay tribute to these sixteenth-century ‘slammers’ by asking a modern equivalent, Kwal, to ‘slam’ some of Du Bellay's sonnets, including the famous Heureux qui, comme Ulysse.

Une synthèse de l'ensemble des connaissances relatives aux théories, méthodes et mécanismes de cette activité du cerveau humain. …

Des explications sur le fonctionnement de la mémoire, sur les techniques de mémorisation ainsi que sur les manières de stimuler et d'entretenir cette capacité mentale. Avec des conseils et des astuces pour entretenir ses neurones au quotidien. …

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment certaines personnes peuvent se rappeler d’innombrable informations, pourquoi pour quelques personnes il est si facile de se rappeler tandis que pour d’autres c’est très facile ?
Il n’est pas nécessaire d’être un étudiant ou un travailleur qui a souvent à faire avec la mémoire : ce livre est pensé vraiment pour tout le monde ! …

The works of Cipriano de Rore (1515/16 – 1565) remained extremely popular until well after his death. Several of his madrigals later appeared in dozens of ornamented versions and continued to do so until the beginning of the 17th century; this was an extraordinary success for the time.

Des conseils pratiques pour venir en aide à un enfant ayant des troubles mnésiques ou des difficultés d'apprentisasge et de concentration. …