Katharine Ellis

French Musical Life

Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

French Musical Life 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 244mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780197600160
• ISBN-10: 0197600166
• Artikelnr.: 62114544

Autorenporträt

Katharine Ellis is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. She is widely published on the history of musical France in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her previous monographs cover canon-formation and the press, the early music revival, and Benedictine musical politics c.1900. She has been elected to the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
-Centralization and its discontents
-Decentralization, deconcentration, regionalism
-Politics, then and now
-A Study in four Parts
-Approaches
Part I Education
Introduction
Chapter 1: The National Conservatoire System
-Class and access: working-class men
-Class and status: young bourgeoises
-Power, hard and soft
-Directorial discretion: curricula
-The 1930s: towards reform
Chapter 2: Educational Independence
-Pedagogical Difference c.1900
-The Schola's ghostly presences I: Montpellier
-The Schola's ghostly presences II: Séverac's vision, Le Havre and Nancy
-Strasbourg
-Bordeaux
-Composition: the final frontier
Part II Concert Rites
Introduction
Chapter 3: Choral Voices
-Orphéons: uniformity and regional identity
-Cathedral maîtrises
-Mixed choirs: Poitou-Charentes and Strasbourg
-Belle Époque ambition: Bordes, Witkowski and Lyon
Chapter 4: Instrumental Music and Urban Gravitas
-Private, public, "populaire"
-The Symphony orchestra as musical hub
-Amateur to professional
-Provincial programming: orchestral, chamber and specialist ensembles
-Local vs. (inter)national
Part III Stage Musics
Introduction
Chapter 5: Opera Against the Odds
-The 1864 liberté des théâtres
-Municipal perspectives
-Industry perspectives
Chapter 6: Operatic Competition
-The Café-Concert
-Operetta
-Touring: individual and collective
-Technology
Chapter 7: Opera Inside and Out
-Wagner's "tour de France"
-Couleur locale in Paris and at home
-Open-air opera
Part IV Folk, Region, Nation
Introduction
Chapter 8: Folk Musics
-The French folk-music problem
-Politics of collection, transcription, and classification
-Soundscapes of popular Catholicism
-Folk music, the peasant, and the bourgeoisie
-Display, domestication, tourism
-Coda
Chapter 9: Composition
-A View from 1937
-Provincial career paths
-Rethinking the Schola's regionalism
-The Allure of the Russian Five
-Back to opera: regionalism and nation
-Mode, multi-regionalism, and patrimoine
Conclusions
-"Decentralization" through the lens of Lyon
-Musical localism
-Repositioning the rural
Bibliography
Index