Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781472474759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 254 str.

Deborah Mawer

Opis

This edited volume presents a selected history of French music and culture, but one with a dynamic difference. Eschewing a traditional chronological account, it explores the nature of relationships in French musical culture between one historical period and another, probing the emergent interplay, intertextualities and scope for subsequent reinterpretation across time and place. It engages with notions of cultural meaning, especially those pertaining to French identity, both national and individual. While founded on historical musicology, the approach benefits from association with philosophy, literature, film studies, music analysis, composition and performance. Attention is given to French composers' celebrations and re-makings of their predecessors. Composers' editions of and writings about earlier music are considered, as are aspects of the later cultural reception of romantic, baroque, renaissance and medieval repertoires. A related theme concerns issues for modern editors and performers of early French music. Each of the book's five main parts sets out a specific cultural network or temporal interplay, which may result variously in synthesis, disjunction, or historical misreading. The interwar years and those surrounding World War II prove a particularly rich source of enquiry.

Spis treści

Introduction: revisiting French musical history (Deborah Mawer)  PART I French music and culture, 1860–1930  1 Patrimoine in French music: layers and crosscurrents from the Romantics to the 1920s (Katharine Ellis)  2 ‘Le Paradis deux fois perdu’: Debussy, Watteau and the fête galante (Richard Langham Smith)  3 Saint-Saëns, d’Indy and the Rameau OEuvres complètes: new light on the Zoroastre editorial project (1914) (Graham Sadler)  4 Adventures in gastromusicology: Satie, La Sirène and Trois petites pièces montées (1919) (Caroline Potter)  5 Le Tombeau de Ronsard in La Revue musicale (1924): memory and historical interplay (Helen Julia Minors)  PART II French music and culture, 1930–1960  6 Beyond neoclassicism: symphonic form, catharsis and political commentary in Barraine’s Deuxième symphonie (1938) (Laura Hamer)  7 Tristan und Isolde in occupied Paris, 1941: a convenient solution to France’s Wagner problem? (Rachel Orzech)  8 Historical French music in French feature films of the Occupation years (Isabel De Berrié)  9 Jolivet’s Rameau: theory, practice and temporal interplay (Deborah Mawer)  10 Jolivet’s Beethoven: supplementarity, topicality and alterity (Jun Zubillaga-Pow)  11 Commission and omission: the canon according to Messiaen (Christopher Dingle)

O autorze

Deborah Mawer is Research Professor of Music and the Director of Research at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, UK, where she also leads the large project ‘Accenting the Classics’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.