Nouvelles poësies spirituelles et morales sur les plus beaux airs de la musique françoise et italienne 3-5/7 - Various; La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-1695 (Paris Lottin, 1737)
The eight collections of Nouvelles poésies spirituelles et morales were published in Paris by Guillaume Desprez, Jean Desessartz, Philippe-Nicolas Lottin and Guichard from 1730 to 1737. This collection of more than four hundred spiritual parodies in French for voice and continuo, borrowed from seventy composers, was a great success in the 18th century, as shown by the reprints that were made.
on music by Lully, Destouches, Desmarets, Clerambault, Bernier, Lambert, Beaupré, Gillier, Campra, Bertin, Marchand, Couperin, Marais, Debousset and others
Bass part has been numbered by Clerambault for the harpsichord and the theorbo (mentioned in the prefaces).
parodied genres are operas, detached arias, cantatas and instrumental pieces
the Fables of de la Fontaine, always separately paginated, are parodied on Vaudevilles and 'petits Airs aisés à chanter' and could be accompanied by the harpsichord and the musette
various songs in different categories: Louanges de Dieu, Misteres de Notre Seigneur J. C., Vertus, Vices, Les IV Fins de l'homme, Fables (by de la Fontaine)
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Poetry; Song; Religion; Moral education; Contrafactum; France