1. Is there an Oxford Music Online article with Christophe Moyreau as the heading?
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Answer 1: No, there are no articles with Christophe Moyeau as a heading.
He is a little-known eighteenth century harpsichordist and composer whose wrote during the transition period between the classical and the baroque periods
2. How many Oxford Music Online articles have Christophe Moyreau in the full text of the article(s)? The name or terms will be highlighted in the article.
Answer 2: There are two articles where his name, Christophe Moyreau appears in the full text of the articles.
- Article1: French Overture - the following text comes from section 3. Later History
"By 1700 the French overture had long enjoyed widespread use (by François Couperin, Collasse, Destouches, Mouret, Montéclair, Clérambault, Marais, Desmarets, Campra, Corelli, Erlebach, Keiser, Ariosti, Bononcini and many others). Its adaptive possibilities too had been extensively explored: French overtures had been played as concert pieces, joined to operas and ballets other than those with which they originated, transcribed for keyboard (D’Anglebert, Pièces de clavecin), and placed at the head of numerous suites and sonatas (Böhm; later Dieupart, Christophe Moyreau, Mondonville)."
- Article2: Suite - the following text comes from section 8. Couperin and the 18th-century French suite
"...of his suites with fugues, the first and last Frenchman to do so. Charles Demars (1735) began some of his with sweeping preludes in a quite un-Gallic manner; in both cases, a Handelian influence probably operated. In 1753, Christophe Moyreau published six vast suites, two in one book, the last four with a book to themselves, suggesting the same architectural approach seen in D'Anglebert. Each suite opens with an overture and two to five of the traditional dances, followed by up to 14 character-pieces, sometimes including a divertissement. Each suite then continues with a second overture, followed by a complete sonata, a concerto, or both. The sonatas were modelled after the Corellian sonata da chiesa and the concertos after late Baroque Italian examples. Key unity was again challenged by Simon Simon (1761): ‘Instead of issuing solo harpsichord..."
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