Baroque Music of France

Powerful singers include Francois Couperin, Louis Couperin, and Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres. Jean Philippe Rameau, an important opera composer, wrote a powerful treatise on musical theory, especially in the subject of harmony; he also brought the clarinet into his groups. In the late Renaissance and early Baroque era, a type of famous secular vocal music that is known as Air de cour spread throughout France.

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