The Faure Song Cycles

Author : Stephen Rumph
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297628
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faure Song Cycles written by Stephen Rumph and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Fauré’s mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Fauré’s musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Fauré’s musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.

Author : Gloria Shafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Children's Song Cycle as a Musical Genre with Four Case Studies and an Original Cycle written by Gloria Shafer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an historical overview of the song cycle and a survey of the children's song cycle, this text includes structural, stylistic, and interpretative analysis of four representative children's song cycles and an original cycle.

Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521896444
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song Cycle written by Laura Tunbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Author : Robert Gartside
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Songs of Gabriel Fauré written by Robert Gartside and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book contains the complete literal translation and IPA transcription of Faure's Melodies, plus interpretation suggestions for each. Phonetic Alphabet for the language.

Author : Carlo Caballero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110869439X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fauré Studies written by Carlo Caballero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mario Joseph Serge Gérard Champagne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Song Cycle (1840-1924) written by Mario Joseph Serge Gérard Champagne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351566113
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets written by Graham Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Gabriel Faur‘s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Faur the lifelong prot of Camille Saint-Sa was a suavely precocious student; he was part of Pauline Viardot's circle in the 1870s and he nearly married her daughter. Pointed in the direction of symbolist poetry by Robert de Montesquiou in 1886, Faur as the favoured composer from the early 1890s of Winnarretta Singer, later Princesse de Polignac, and his songs were revered by Marcel Proust. In 1905 he became director of the Paris Conservatoire, and he composed his most profound music in old age. His existence, steadily productive and outwardly imperturbable, was undermined by self-doubt, an unhappy marriage and a tragic loss of hearing. In this detailed study Graham Johnson places the vocal music within twin contexts: Faur own life story, and the parallel lives of his many poets. We encounter such giants as Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, the patrician Leconte de Lisle, the forgotten Armand Silvestre and the Belgian symbolist Charles Van Lerberghe. The chronological range of the narrative encompasses Faur first poet, Victor Hugo, who railed against Napoleon III in the 1850s, and the last, Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, killed in action in the First World War. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated study each of Faur 109 songs receives a separate commentary. Additional chapters for the student singer and serious music lover discuss interpretation and performance in both aesthetical and practical terms. Richard Stokes provides parallel English translations of the original French texts. In the twenty-first century musical modernity is evaluated differently from the way it was assessed thirty years ago. Faur‘s no longer merely a 'Master of Charms' circumscribed by the belleque. His status as a great composer of timeless

Author : Jean-Michel Nectoux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521616959
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gabriel Fauré written by Jean-Michel Nectoux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces Fauré's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.

Author : Wendell Dean Buckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solo Song Cycle written by Wendell Dean Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Fisk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225643
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Returning Cycles written by Charles Fisk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fisk's portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's hand, both verbal (song texts and his written words) and musical (vocal and instrumental). Noting extraordinary aspects of tonality, structure, and gestural content, Fisk argues that through his music Schubert sought to alleviate his apparent sense of exile and his anticipation of early death. Fisk supports this view through close analysis of the cyclic connections within and between the works he explores, finding in them complex musical narratives that attempt to come to terms with mortality, alienation, hope, and desire."--BOOK JACKET.