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Modern French Music (1924) » Read Now
by Edward Burlingame Hill. 406 pgs.

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...MODERN FRENCH MUSIC -ii- MODERN FRENCH MUSIC BY EDWARD BURLINGAME HILL With Portraits BOSTON...printed in the U.S.A. TO A. B. H. -vi- PREFACE This study of French music...
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French Cultural Politics & Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War » Read Now
by Jane F. Fulcher. 294 pgs.

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This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political...
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This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues forged new modes of political activity, as Jane F. Fulcher details in this important study, and thus the whole playing field of political action was enlarged. Investigating this transitional period in light of several recent insights in the areas of French history, sociology, political anthropology, and literary theory, Fulcher shows how the new departures in cultural politics affected not only literature and the visual arts but also music. Having lost the battle of the Dreyfus affair (legally, at least), the nationalists set their sights on the art world, for they considered France's artistic achievements the ideal means for furthering their conception of "French identity." French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War illustrates the ways in which the nationalists effectively targeted the music world for this purpose, employing critics, educational institutions, concert series, and lectures to disseminate their values by way of public and private discourses on French music. Fulcher then demonstrates how both the Republic and far Left responded to this challenge, using programs and institutions of their own to launch counterdiscourses on contemporary musical values. Perhaps most importantly, this book fully explores the widespread influence of this politicized musical culture on such composers as d'Indy, Charpentier, Magnard, Debussy, and Satie. By viewing this fertile cultural milieu of clashing sociopolitical convictions against the broader background of aesthetic rivalry and opposition, this work addresses the changing notions of "tradition" in music--and of modernism itself. As Fulcher points out, it was the traditionalist faction, not the Impressionist one, that eventually triumphed in the French musical realm, as witnessed by their "defeat" of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
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French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Faure » Read Now
by Martin Cooper. 244 pgs.

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...FRENCH MUSIC FRENCH MUSIC From the death of Berlioz to the death of Faure By MARTIN...1 CHAPTER I. Prologue and music between 1870-80. French music in the middle of the...
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Companion to Baroque Music ("France: Paris and Its Environs" begins on p. 91) » Read Now
by Julie Anne Sadie. 558 pgs.

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Baroque music, not long ago considered the province of the specialist, now occupies a central place in the interests of any music-lover. Not just Bach and Handel, but Vivaldi and Monteverdi, Couperin and Rameau, Purcell and Schütz are familiar and loved figures. There is place now for a survey that...
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Baroque music, not long ago considered the province of the specialist, now occupies a central place in the interests of any music-lover. Not just Bach and Handel, but Vivaldi and Monteverdi, Couperin and Rameau, Purcell and Schütz are familiar and loved figures. There is place now for a survey that offers fresh perspectives on these men and the times in which they lived. That is what the Companion to Baroque Music is designed to offer, to all those who are attracted by the music of that crucial century and a half, 1600-1750, which we call 'the Baroque era'. Julie Anne Sadie, herself scholar, performer, and critic, brings to this survey two novel features. First, it is underpinned by a keen awareness of music as sound, intended to be played, heard, and relished by the listener--as witness the group of articles contributed by well-known specialists, such as Nigel Rogers and David Fuller, on the central issues of performance. Secondly it is concerned not only with what the music is like but why it is as it is: and the series of essays, again by specialists, such as Michael Talbot (on Italy) and Peter Holman (on England) which places each region's music in its social and cultural contexts helps to explain its character. The lexicographical part of the book, in which the life of every significant musician of the era is charted and his or her work outlined, is subdivided geographically so as to convey with particular sharpness the special character of music-making in each part of Europe--and a system of cross-references defines the ebb and flow of influences as composers travelled from city to city or court to court, disseminating their tastes, their styles, their ideas. A detailed chronology enables the reader to take in at a glance the sequence of musical events across the entire period. The Companion to Baroque Music, which contains a foreword by Christopher Hogwood, offers both reliable reference material and lively, enlightening reading to all those--amateur and professional, from the skilled practical musician to the person who has never played anything more demanding than a piece of stereo equipment--who love the music of the era that culminated in the great masterworks of Bach and Handel.
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The Eighteenth Century French Cantata » Read Now
by David Tunley. 278 pgs.

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The first edition of this book has become the classic study of one of the most popular musical forms in early 18th-century France, not only because it documents and examines its considerable repertoire for the first time, but also because it places the genre in the wide context of both French and...
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The first edition of this book has become the classic study of one of the most popular musical forms in early 18th-century France, not only because it documents and examines its considerable repertoire for the first time, but also because it places the genre in the wide context of both French and Italian baroque music styles. This new edition incorporates research by the author and other scholars that has appeared during the twenty years since the first edition, reflecting today's growing interest in French baroque music. It also features a new chapter dealing with the French cantata in performance.
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Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music: The Extra-Musical Subtext in Piano Works by Ravel, Debussy, and Messiaen » Read Now
by Siglind Bruhn. 432 pgs.

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...IMAGES AND IDEAS IN MODERN FRENCH PIANO MUSIC The Extra-Musical Subtext...IMAGES AND IDEAS IN MODERN FRENCH PIANO MUSIC The Extra-Musical Subtext...of the literary...
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French Piano Music » Read Now
by Alfred Cortot, Hilda Andrews. 210 pgs.

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...French Piano Music ALFRED CORTOT French Piano Music Translated by Hilda Andrews First Series Claude...lyrical quality and a harmoniousness which, it seemed, French music...
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Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550 » Read Now
by Howard Mayer Brown. 342 pgs.

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...Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550 Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550 by Howard Mayer Brown...p. 317 , n.28, below are to that work. H. M. B. Music...
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Music and the Romantic Movement in France » Read Now
by Arthur Ware Locke. 186 pgs.

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...illustrations and a portrait. French Music of To-day . By G. JEAN-AUBRY...called "the romantic movement," French music took an active though belated...Fantastic Symphony of...
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French Opera at the Fin De Siecle: Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style » Read Now
by Steven Huebner. 526 pgs.

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This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and...
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This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgre lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
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Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640 (Chap. 6 "French Influence in the Caroline Masque") » Read Now
by Peter Walls. 372 pgs.

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Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the music. Yet our view of the masque has been dominated by the texts, and indeed, modern scholarship has tended to treat the masque first and foremost as...
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Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the music. Yet our view of the masque has been dominated by the texts, and indeed, modern scholarship has tended to treat the masque first and foremost as a literary genre. This book is the first complete study of the multi-faceted view of its subject, piecing together a picture of what the music was actually like from musical scores, documentary evidence, and the dramatic texts.
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