Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France

Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Leonard Garrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2024-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197778534

Gaston Crunelle (1898--1990) was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatory from 1941 to 1969 and taught an entire generation of the world's leading flutists. A leading orchestral, chamber music, and solo flutist, his recordings are among the best of the 78-rpm and early LP eras. Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France establishes Crunelle's place in history as one of the most important flutists of the twentieth century and shines light on musical life in France during his lifetime from the silent film era, through the German Occupation, to the changes in music and education since 1968.

Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium

Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium
Author: Orpha Ochse
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-08-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253214232

The art of the organist in nineteenth-century France and Belgium is a rags-to-riches story full of extraordinary problems and changes. Devastated by the French Revolution, the organ profession rose from desperate circumstances to a period of remarkable brilliance. By the end of the nineteenth century, organ playing was enthusiastically applauded and had been thoroughly integrated in the musical life of Paris. This account is not just a record of stellar events and famous names: it includes failures, all-but-forgotten musicians, and unexpected encounters. In a carefully documented study that is both scholarly and engaging. Orpha Ochse traces three major aspects of the organist's art: the development of the secular recital, the organist as church musician, and the education of organists. In addition to presenting a comprehensive view of the organ profession in France and Belgium throughout the period, she offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century music in general.

Programs

Programs
Author: University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2007
Genre: Concert programs
ISBN:

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521871808

Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.

Jacques Copeau

Jacques Copeau
Author: Maurice Kurtz
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809322572

The French writer, editor, and drama critic Jacques Copeau (1879–1949) opened his Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris in 1913. Copeau was well on his way to exerting a major influence in the theater in the year that saw the end of the career of the dominant innovator of an earlier generation, André Antoine, whose Théâtre Libre (Free Stage) had featured an uncompromising realism. In marked contrast to Antoine, Copeau returned the poetry and freshness to Shakespeare and Moliére. By May 1914, Paris and Europe had recognized his genius and his special gift to the theater. Yet like Antoine, Copeau wanted to sweep "staginess" from the stage, to banish overacting, overdressing, and flashy house trappings. To cleanse the stage of its artificiality, he created a fixed, architectural acting space where dramatic literature and theater technique could live in harmony and thrive in freedom of thought and movement. A major part of his program was teaching actors and actresses their craft. Maurice Kurtz points out that the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier incarnates the "ideal of Copeau's stubborn struggle to remain strong in the face of indifference, independent in the face of success, proud in the face of defeat. It is the story of group spirit in its purest, most eloquent form, the spirit of personal sacrifice of all for the dignity of their art." Kurtz here re-creates the vitality Copeau imbued in theater artists throughout the world. He conveys Copeau's enthusiasm, the crusading spirit that enabled Copeau and his Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier to transform experimentation into tradition, into the heritage of civilization. He has written a biography of a theater that was tremendously influential in Europe and America.

The Simple Flute

The Simple Flute
Author: Michel Debost
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019539965X

A practical, concise, and comprehensive guide for flutists.

ARSC Journal

ARSC Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: Sound recording libraries
ISBN:

The Flute Book

The Flute Book
Author: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195105025

Divides flute music into eras such as the baroque, classic, romantic, and modern; traces its development in countries such as France, Italy, England, Germany, Spain, the United States, Great Britain, by regions such as eastern and western Europe, and in cities such as Paris and Vienna. Includes appendices listing flute manufacturers, repair shops, sources for flute music and books, and flute clubs and related organizations worldwide.

Zayde

Zayde
Author: Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226468445

Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.