Regarding Fauré
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Regarding Fauré
（Musicology : a book series, v. 19）
Gordon & Breach, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Regarding Faure , the result of a 1995 conference on Faure'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 Faure 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 Faure (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 Faure is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Faure's prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Context & Criticism
- 1: Faure and the Salons
- 2: Gabriel Faure: Music Critic for Le Figaro
- 3: The Triumph of a Genre: Faure's Chamber Music Through the Looking Glass of Music Criticism
- 4: A View of the French Chamber Music "Renaissance" from Parnassus
- 2: Mentor & Metier
- 5: Faure at the Conservatoire: Critical Assessments of the Years 1896-1920
- 6: Camille Saint-Saens: Faure's Mentor 1
- 3: Analytical Approaches
- 7: The Organic Nature of Sonata Form in Faure
- 8: Allusion in The Music of Gabriel Faure
- 9: Ulysse Revealed 1
- 10: Faure's Prelude to La Passion (1890): A Re-Examination of a Forgotten Score
- 4: Les Melodies
- 11: Mort Exquise: Representations of Ecstasy in the Songs of Duparc and Faure
- 12: Faure's Religion and La Chanson d'Eve
- 13: A Voyage of Discovery into Faure's Song Cycle Mirages
- 14: Faure: Voice, Style and Vocality
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