André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature: Music, Art and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781472442956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 330 str.

Caroline Rae

Opis

This first book in English on the French composer Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) investigates his music, influences and activities against a background of the main trends in twentieth-century French music. A pupil of Varese and colleague of Messiaen in La Jeune France, Jolivet is recognised as a major figure in French music of the last century. His music is characterised by its innovative language and deep spirituality, summarised in his self-declared axiom to 'restore music's ancient original meaning when it was the magic and incantatory expression of the sacred in human communities'. Following a contextual introduction, the contributors, including the composer's daughter Christine Jolivet-Erlih, assess Jolivet's contribution from his early so-called 'magic' period of the 1930s up to and including his late works. These rich and balanced chapters, edited by Caroline Rae, investigate Jolivet's style and compositional process, his relationship with the exotic as well as influences from the visual arts and literature, and examine, for the first time, the significance of his activities as conductor, teacher and critic. A chronology of Jolivet's life and works is presented in English in addition to a list of works. This fascinating and comprehensive volume is a definitive source that will shape the direction of further research into this seminal French composer of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Style and Process 1. Jolivet and the Style incantatoire: Aspects of a Hybrid Tradition - Julian Anderson 2. Inside the Composer’s Workshop: Jolivet’s Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France - Catherine Massip (translated by Caroline Rae) 3. Jolivet’s Early Music Theory and its Practice in the Cinq danses rituelles (1939) - Deborah Mawer 4. Épithalame (1953): A Case Study for Voices - Lucie Kayas Influences 5. Jolivet and the Visual Arts: Interactions and Influences - Caroline Rae 6. An Exploration of Jolivet’s Vocal Works - Christine Jolivet-Erlih and Catherine Massip (translated by Caroline Rae) 7. The Anxiety of Exoticism: Jolivet’s Relationship with Non-Western Musics - Caroline Potter 8. Jolivet Revisited: Messiaen’s Borrowings in the Incantatory Works of the 1930s - Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte and Christopher Murray 9. Sourcing Jolivet’s Compositional Aesthetic: Literary Influences and his Library - Caroline Rae Activities 10. Jolivet and the USSR - Christine Jolivet-Erlih (translated by Caroline Rae) 11. Jolivet as Critic: a Mirror of Music during the Occupation - Nigel Simeone 12. Jolivet as Teacher: Programme, Method and Philosophy - Pascal Terrien (translated by Caroline Rae) 13. Jolivet and the Function of Performance - Jean-Claire Vançon (translated by Caroline Rae)

O autorze

Caroline Rae is a Reader in Music at Cardiff University and pianist. She has published widely on twentieth-century French music as well as on the musical writings of Alejo Carpentier, and is author of The Music of Maurice Ohana (Ashgate, 2000), editor of the revised and expanded edition of Robert Sherlaw Johnson’s Messiaen (Omnibus, 2008) and contributing co-editor of Dutilleux at 95 (Contemporary Music Review, 2010). She was Series Advisor to the Philharmonia Orchestra’s landmark festival City of Light: Paris 1900–1950 and has been a programming consultant to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, projects including BBC Discovering Dutilleux Festival, Jolivet Composer Portrait and Paul Sacher Perspectives season. She is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 3. As a pianist, she was a pupil of Dame Fanny Waterman and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and remains active as a performer. She was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to French music in 2018.