The Faure Song Cycles
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Author | : Stephen Rumph |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520969901 |
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 | : Stephen Rumph |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520297628 |
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 | : Laura Tunbridge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521896444 |
Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Author | : Mario Joseph Serge Gérard Champagne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Song cycles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jean-Michel Nectoux |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2004-12-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521616959 |
This book traces Fauré's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.
Author | : Carlo Caballero |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-04-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 110842919X |
Presents new research on Fauré by leading scholars, encompassing hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.
Author | : Tom Gordon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134391250 |
Regarding Fauré , the result of a 1995 conference on Fauré's important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned Fauré scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding Fauré is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Fauré's prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a
Author | : Wendell Dean Buckley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Song cycles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Graham Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780199249664 |
A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.
Author | : Stephen Rumph |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2004-08-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520238559 |
"A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of the subject, reinterpreting overly familiar music in striking new ways. Wonderful critical and interpretive observations abound; the author writes with great imagination and flair."—Scott Burnham, author of Beethoven Hero "Rumph shows at last the extent to which Beethoven's late period, the period of his most spiritual and 'inward' music, was a response to political change. In effect his book is an extended retort to E. T. A. Hoffmann's two-centuries-old claim that Beethoven's kingdom was not of this world—and it's about time! Rumph's argument will be resisted by Hoffmann's many heirs; but it is most compelling, not least because it answers so many long-standing questions about 'the music itself' and clears up so many misconceptions about the nature of musical romanticism."—Richard Taruskin, Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley