Fauré studies
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Fauré studies
(Cambridge composer studies)
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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