Tom Gordon

Regarding Faure (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Regarding Fauré , the result of a 1995 conference on Fauré's important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned Fauré scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding Fauré is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Fauré's prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134391189
• Artikelnr.: 40296644

Autorenporträt

Tom Gordon

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Context & Criticism
1: Fauré and the Salons
2: Gabriel Fauré: Music Critic for Le Figaro
3: The Triumph of a Genre: Fauré's Chamber Music Through the Looking Glass of Music Criticism
4: A View of the French Chamber Music "Renaissance" from Parnassus
2: Mentor & Métier
5: Fauré at the Conservatoire: Critical Assessments of the Years 1896-1920
6: Camille Saint-Saëns: Fauré's Mentor 1
3: Analytical Approaches
7: The Organic Nature of Sonata Form in Fauré
8: Allusion in The Music of Gabriel Fauré
9: Ulysse Revealed 1
10: Fauré's Prelude to La Passion (1890): A Re-Examination of a Forgotten Score
4: Les Mélodies
11: Mort Exquise: Representations of Ecstasy in the Songs of Duparc and Fauré
12: Fauré's Religion and La Chanson d'Ève
13: A Voyage of Discovery into Fauré's Song Cycle Mirages
14: Fauré: Voice, Style and Vocality