Fauré Studies

ISBN-13: 9781108429191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Carlo Caballero (University of Colorado Boulder);Stephen Rumph (University of Washington)

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Fauré Studies showcases new research from leading scholars in the United States, United Kingdom, and France into this influential French composer of the fin de siècle. 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 Fauré research from the composer's lifetime to the present. As part of Cambridge Composer Studies, Fauré Studies adds momentum to new research into this major composer, which includes recently launched critical editions of his music.

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Foreword Jean-Michel Nectoux; 1. Patrons and society: Gabriel Fauré's 'other' career in the Paris and London music salons Sylvia Kahan; 2. Keys to the ineffable in Fauré: criticism, history, aesthetics Hervé Lacombe; 3. Fauré as student and teacher of harmony Robert O. Gjerdingen; 4. Romancing the mélodie, or generic dialogue in Fauré's early songs Stephen Rumph; 5. Lux æterna: Fauré'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 Pénélope: aspects of Wagner's influence on Fauré Mathieu Schneider; 8. Fauré the practical interpreter Roy Howat; 9. Fauré, orientalism, and le voile du bonheur Carlo Caballero and Leslee Smucker; 10. Jankélévitch, Fauré, and the thirteenth nocturne Steven Rings.