Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music

Introduction; Part I How Composers Communicate; Chapter 1 1This text and the recorded examples were originally presented as a keynote address at the conference "French Music: Performance and Analysis," Brigham Young University- Hawai'i, La'ie, Hawai'i, November 17, 2007., Roy Howat; Chapter 2 Messiaen as Pianist: A Romantic in a Modernist World, Christopher Dingle; Part II Teachers as the Conduit to the Composer's Intent; Chapter 3 The Genesis of Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux, Peter Hill; Chapter 4 1I would like to thank Lesley A. Wright for sharing materials from libraries in Boston/Cambridge and Paris., David Korevaar; Part III Historical Resources; Chapter 5 Style, Performance Practice, and Reception in the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue: Placing and Performing Cesar Franck, Richard Langham Smith; Chapter 6 1I should like to thank David Milsom for some typically insightful comments on a draft of this chapter., Christopher Dingle; Part IV Using Analysis for Informed Performances: Pianists' Views; Chapter 7 1I would like to thank Lesley A. Wright and my former doctoral supervisor, Tim Howell, at York University for especially constructive comments offered in the final stages of putting the chapter together., Scott McCarrey; Chapter 8 Messiaen to Murail, or, What Sounds Become, Marilyn Nonken;