Faure Studies showcases new research from leading scholars in the United States, United Kingdom, and France into this influential French composer of the fin de siecle. This book features interpretations of individual works and musical analyses, as well as studies of compositional pedagogy, social history, and aesthetics. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this volume also provides a valuable overview of Faure research from the composer's lifetime to the present. As part of Cambridge Composer Studies, Faure Studies adds momentum to new research into this major composer, which includes recently launched critical editions of his music.
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Worked examples or Exercises; 37 Printed music items; 4 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
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Höhe: 238 mm
Breite: 167 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-108-45323-3 (9781108453233)
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Carlo Caballero is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Faurei and French Musical Aesthetics and has published essays in Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Music, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and many edited collections. His current projects include studies of social continuities in French music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the historiography of nineteenth-century ballet, and a second monograph on Faurei. Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Faure Song Cycles (forthcoming). Other publications include Beethoven After Napoleon (2004) and Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (2011) and articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Music Association, 19th-Century Music, and other periodicals. In 2015 he co-organized the international conference 'Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Faure and the Limits of Criticism'.
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University of Colorado Boulder
University of Washington
Foreword Jean-Michel Nectoux; 1. Patrons and society: Gabriel Faure's 'other' career in the Paris and London music salons Sylvia Kahan; 2. Keys to the ineffable in Faure: criticism, history, aesthetics Herve Lacombe; 3. Faure as student and teacher of harmony Robert O. Gjerdingen; 4. Romancing the melodie, or generic dialogue in Faure's early songs Stephen Rumph; 5. Lux aeterna: Faure's messe de requiem, op. 48 Byron Adams; 6. From Homer's banquet to Fauchois' feast: The Odyssey's odyssey Sander Goldberg; 7. Orchestral melody in Penelope: aspects of Wagner's influence on Faure Mathieu Schneider; 8. Faure the practical interpreter Roy Howat; 9. Faure, orientalism, and le voile du bonheur Carlo Caballero and Leslee Smucker; 10. Jankelevitch, Faure, and the thirteenth nocturne Steven Rings.