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Fauré Studies

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Jean-Michel Nectoux, Sylvia Kahan, Hervé Lacombe, Robert O. Gjerdingen, Stephen Rumph, Byron Adams, Sander Goldberg, Mathieu Schneider, Roy Howat, Carlo Caballero, Leslee Smucker, Steven Rings
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  • Date Published: December 2023
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108453233

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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.

    • Showcases the latest research on Gabriel Fauré, representing a new surge of scholarly interest in this influential French composer of the fin de siècle
    • Includes a wide range of scholarly approaches from music theory to aesthetics
    • Provides a valuable insight and evaluation of Fauré research from the composer's lifetime to the present day
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    • Date Published: December 2023
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108453233
    • length: 277 pages
    • dimensions: 244 x 170 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.484kg
    • contains: 8 b/w illus. 4 tables 37 music examples
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    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.

  • Editors

    Carlo Caballero, University of Colorado Boulder
    Carlo Caballero is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Faureì and French Musical Aesthetics and has published essays in Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Music, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and many edited collections. His current projects include studies of social continuities in French music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the historiography of nineteenth-century ballet, and a second monograph on Faureì.

    Stephen Rumph, University of Washington
    Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Fauré Song Cycles (forthcoming). Other publications include Beethoven After Napoleon (2004) and Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (2011) and articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Music Association, 19th-Century Music, and other periodicals. In 2015 he co-organized the international conference 'Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Fauré and the Limits of Criticism'.

    Contributors

    Jean-Michel Nectoux, Sylvia Kahan, Hervé Lacombe, Robert O. Gjerdingen, Stephen Rumph, Byron Adams, Sander Goldberg, Mathieu Schneider, Roy Howat, Carlo Caballero, Leslee Smucker, Steven Rings

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