The French Song Cycle (1840-1924)
Author: Mario Joseph Serge Gérard Champagne
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 336
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Rumph
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0520297628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gabriel Fauré’s mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Fauré’s musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Fauré’s musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.
Author: Edward R. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 1135838968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2011, this research study includes a biography section as well as the works of Gabriel Urbain Fauré born on 12 May 1845. Much of Fauré’s music, especially the late pieces, remain little played and little known—as a result, his reputation as a salon composer of pleasant music continues even among educated musicians. The author suggests that it is more likely that the difficulty of much of Fauré’s music for the listener and the demands it places upon him or her are the principal reasons for its omission from concert programs and for a misunderstanding of Fauré’s place in the history of French music
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.
Author: Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 704
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A History of Music in Western Culture 3/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus squarely on the music. Organized around a carefully selected repertory of works, this text integrates the requisite names, dates, and concepts around specific compositions. Once familiar with a representative body of music, students can better grasp the evolution of musical style and music's changing uses within the Western tradition. Even more importantly, they will have a sound basis from which to explore other musical works and repertories. This text builds its narrative around the core repertory represented in the Anthology of Scores and the corresponding sets of compact discs.
Author: Kate van Orden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-10-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0520276507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultural history of Western musicÕs adaptation to print, Kate van Orden looks at how musical authorship first developed through the medium of printing. When music printing began in the sixteenth century, publication did not always involve the composer: printers used the names of famous composers to market books that might include little or none of their music. Publishing sacred music could be career-building for a composer, while some types of popular song proved too light to support a reputation in print, no matter how quickly they sold. Van Orden addresses the complexities that arose for music and musicians in the burgeoning cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony gained only uneven cultural traction across a century in which composers were still first and foremost performers.
Author: Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suitable for all courses in music history. This brief and accessible text provides undergraduates with a conceptual framework for understanding stylistic and social developments in the history of music from classical antiquity to the present. This text allows the student to grasp the richness and importance of musical history in two important ways. It combines narrative with primary sources in a lively and engaging manner and it traces key concepts of musical style and the uses of music across time.
Author: Gloria Shafer
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Providing an historical overview of the song cycle and a survey of the children's song cycle, this text includes structural, stylistic, and interpretative analysis of four representative children's song cycles and an original cycle.
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 794
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