Antoine d'Abbadie d'Arrast et la musique

Abstract

Antoine d'Abbadie's interest for music during his youth is demonstrated by the fact that he adjusted or copied a method for musical stenography. With the setting-up of the floral games, music manifests itself in a secondary way at first, through its performance in the songs of the prize-winning poems (by a solo singer or a group and, exceptionally, in 1856, by the Lionnet brothers on a melody taken down by D. Alard). In 1874, one of the first Basque melody books is published. This book contains a melody which was passed on (after an exchange of correspondence to when we have had access) by A. d’Abbadie to P. Lamazou, a tenor from Bearn who was well-known in Paris for his arrangements of "pyreneaic songs".