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.
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Presents new research on Fauré by leading scholars, encompassing hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.
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| Looking Back on a Journey |
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1 Patrons and Society Gabriel Faure's "Other" Career in the Paris and London Music Salons |
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2 Keys to the Ineffable in Faure Criticism, History, Aesthetics |
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3 Faure as Student and Teacher of Harmony |
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4 Romancing the melodie, or Generic Play in the Early Hugo Settings |
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5 Lux aeterna Faure's Messe de Requiem, Op. 48 |
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6 From Homer's Banquet to Fauchois' Feast The Odyssey's Odyssey |
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7 Orchestral Melody in Penelope Aspects of Wagner's Influence on Faure |
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8 Faure the Practical Interpreter |
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9 Faure, Orientalism, and Le voile du bonheur |
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10 Jankelevitch, Faure, and the Thirteenth Nocturne |
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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 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'.
