Download or read book Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe si cle written by Joël-Marie Fauquet and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Au XIXe siècle en France la musique s'empare de la société entière. Si de grandes œuvres, souvent jouées au concert ou à l'opéra, appartiennent maintenant au répertoire, si le triomphe des grands virtuoses, le mouvement de ferveur que suscitèrent les grands concerts symphoniques, les querelles entre partisans de l'opéra italien ou de l'opéra allemand appartiennent à la légende musicale du siècle, sait-on exactement pour et par qui est faite toute la musique qui se joue à Paris et en province à cette époque ? Comment les Français l'ont-ils perçue ? Comment l'enseigne-t-on ? Comment la facture instrumentale a-t-elle ouvert de nouveaux champs sonores ? Comment se déroulaient les carrières d'interprète ou de compositeur ? Quel rôle a joué l'édition musicale ? Comment les musiques de plein air (militaire entre autres) ou le café-concert ont initié à la musique un vaste auditoire ? Comment les pouvoirs, politiques ou sociaux, ont-ils inscrit leur action dans ce domaine ? Quelle évolution peut-on observer dans le comportement et les goûts du public ? Quels rapports ont lié la musique et les autres arts ? Comment les écrivains réagissaient-ils à la musique ? C'est à ces questions que répondent les deux cents collaborateurs, spécialistes français et étrangers, sous la direction de Joël-Marie Fauquet, de ce Dictionnaire, en près de trois mille notices consacrées aux acteurs (compositeurs, librettistes, chanteurs, instrumentistes, danseurs, directeurs de théâtres, critiques...), aux œuvres, aux institutions (Opéra, Conservatoire, sociétés de concerts, sociétés chorales...), aux lieux (salles de concert et théâtres, à Paris et en province), aux genres, sans oublier les notions et les concepts qui soutiennent la pratique de milliers d'individus, amateurs ou professionnels. Si les œuvres occupent une large place dans ces pages, l'orientation de cet ouvrage n'est pas uniquement musicologique, mais également historique et sociologique. Ce premier dictionnaire consacré à la musique en France au XIXe siècle s'inscrit dans une optique pluridisciplinaire, qui envisage la musique sous tous ses aspects, et brosse un tableau d'histoire culturelle qui s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'évolution des sensibilités artistiques.
Download or read book Dictionnaire de la musique en France au 19e si cle written by Joël-Marie Fauquet and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Musical Life written by Katharine Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is the legacy of political and cultural struggle during the long nineteenth century, indicating a French Revolution unresolved both then and now. In light of the capital's power as the seat of a centralizing French state (which provincials found 'colonizing') and as a cosmopolitan musical crossroads of nineteenth-century Europe, the struggles inherent in creating sustainable musical cultures outside Paris, and in composing local and regionalist music, are ripe for analysis. Replacement of 'France' with Paris has encouraged normative history-writing articulated by the capital's opera and concert life. Regional practices have been ignored, disparaged or treated piecemeal. This book is a study of French musical centralization and its discontents during the period leading up to and beyond the "provincial awakening" of the Belle Époque. The book explains how different kinds of artistic decentralization and regionalism were hard won (or not) across a politically turbulent century from the 1830s to World War II. In doing so it redraws the historical map of musical power relations in mainland France. Based on work in over 70 archives, chapters on conservatoires, concert life, stage music, folk music and composition reveal how tensions of State and locality played out differently depending on the structures and funding mechanisms in place, the musical priorities of different communities, and the presence or absence of galvanizing musicians. Progressively, the book shifts from musical contexts to musical content, exploring the pressure point of folk music and its translation into "local color" for officials who perpetually feared national division. Control over composition on the one hand, and the emotional intensity of folk-based musical experience on the other, emerges as a matter of consistent official praxis. In terms of "French music" and its compositional styles, what results is a surprising new historiography of French neoclassicism, bound into and growing out of a study of diversity and its limits in daily musical life.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to French Music written by Simon Trezise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.
Download or read book Music Theater and Cultural Transfer written by Annegret Fauser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the nineteenth century.” The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city’s musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters or repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management models from one environment to another. By focusing on this interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music reached its zenith.
Download or read book Interpreting the Musical Past written by Katharine Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing in-depth studies of repertories stretching from Adam de la Halle to Rameau.
Download or read book Genealogies of Music and Memory written by Mark Everist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how the stage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide range of musical and literary environments. Received opinion has Hector Berlioz as the sole guardian of the Gluckian flame from the 1820s onwards, and responsible -- together with the soprano Pauline Viardot -- for the 'revival' of the composer's Orfeo in 1859. The picture is much clarified by looking at the concert performances of Gluck during the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, and the ways in which they were received and the literary discourses they engendered. Coupled to questions of music publication, pedagogy, and the institutional status of the composer, such a study reveals a wide range of individual agents active in the promotion of Gluck's music for the Parisian stage. The 'revival' of Orfeo is contextualised among other attempts at reviving Gluck's works in the 1860s, and the role of Berlioz, Viardot and a host of others re-examined.
Download or read book Dictionnaire de la musique written by Gérard Pernon and published by EDITIONS JEAN-PAUL GISSEROT. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage traite de la musique des origines à nos jours sous ses principaux genres. Il aborde entre autres les compositeurs, les instruments et les différentes formes musicales. Il s'agit ici de la cinquième édition mise à jour de ce dictionnaire. Il s'est vendu jusqu'ici à 60 000 exemplaires, un chiffre remarquable pour un ouvrage qui se veut accessible à tous les publics et aussi complet que possible dans un format léger. Très apprécié des enseignants et de leurs élèves, il s'adresse à tous les curieux de la musique. En leur racontant simplement la musique à travers son histoire, ses formes, ses genres, ses styles, ses compositeurs et leurs œuvres.
Download or read book The Politics of Plainchant in fin de si cle France written by Katharine Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells three inter-related stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism. It offers at once a new history of the rise of the Benedictines of Solesmes to official dominance over Catholic editions of plainchant worldwide, a new optic on the French liturgical publishing industry during a period of international crisis for the publication of plainchant notation, and an exploration of how, both despite and because of official hostility, French Catholics could bend Republican anticlericalism at the highest level to their own ends. The narrative relates how Auguste Pécoul, a former French diplomat and Benedictine novice, masterminded an undercover campaign to aid the Gregorian agenda of the Solesmes monks via French government intervention at the Vatican. His vehicle: trades unionists from within the book industry, whom he mobilized into nationalist protest against Vatican attempts to enshrine a single, contested, and German, version of the musical text as canon law. Yet the political scheming necessitated by Pécoul’s double involvement with Solesmes and the print unions almost spun out of control as his Benedictine contacts struggled with internal division and anticlerical persecution. The results are as musicologically significant for the study of Solesmes as they are instructive for the study of Church-State relations.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Chamber Music written by Stephen Hefling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Download or read book La musique en France au XIXe si cle written by Paul Gabillard and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accenting the Classics written by Deborah Mawer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz written by Peter Bloom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.
Download or read book Berlioz written by Peter Bloom and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in six contrasting and complementary pairs, the essays treat such matters as Berlioz's aesthetics and what it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he visited their capital city. We learn in explicit detail how Berlioz deployed the mezzo-soprano voice, what he seems to have written immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a surprise), and where he benefited from Beethoven in what later became Romeo et Juliette.
Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France 1848 1914 written by Alan R. H. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of fraternité. Using a mass of unpublished sources in provincial and national archives, it analyses the history, geography and cultural significance of amateur musical societies and sports clubs in eleven départements of France between 1848 and 1914. It demonstrates that, although these voluntary associations drew upon and extended the traditional concept of cooperation and community, and the Revolutionary concept of fraternity, they also incorporated the fundamental characteristics of competition and conflict. Although intended to produce social harmony, in practice they reflected the ideological hostilities and cultural tensions that permeated French society in the nineteenth century.
