French Art Song

History of a New Music, 1870-1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64825-054-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 186, 468 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 758 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

A ground-breaking study of the musical and literary priorities, professional practices and creative interactions that shaped one of the most adventurous artforms of the Belle Époque.

French art song, or mélodie, was one of the most radical and exploratory artforms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was also among the most intimate, a genre of experimentation, hesitation and unfiltered artistic conversation. In this landmark history, Emily Kilpatrick charts the compositional preoccupations and literary stimuli, the friendships and rivalries, critical narratives and performance practices that shaped French art song between 1870 and the First World War. She traces the expanding horizons of an essentially new musical idiom, moving from the lively debates of the avant-garde to the social and artistic contradictions of the salons, the pedagogy of the Paris Conservatoire, and the eventual accession of song to the concert platform and a central place in the world's musical imagination.

The mélodie of the Belle Époque flourished amidst a culture of creative collaboration, and through the musicianship and advocacy of performers as well as composers. Setting key works by Fauré, Duparc, Chausson, Debussy, and Ravel alongside historical curiosities and hidden gems, French Art Song: History of a New Music probes composer-performer relationships and the shaping of performance traditions and addresses the challenges faced by the twenty-first century interpreter. Kilpatrick twines cultural history with musical insight and a wealth of previously unpublished source material in a wide-ranging and richly detailed account of the public and private faces of musical invention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kilpatrick, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Poet
1 Baudelaire's Invitation to Composers
2 Song and Memory in the "Terrible Year"
3 "To the Depths of the Unknown in Search of the New!"
4 Interlude: The Poet Sings
Part II: Singer
5 Mélodie at the Crossroads
6 Song, Salons, and the "Society Singer"
7 Collaboration and Creative Process
8 Interlude: The Voices of Fêtes Galantes
Part III: Public
9 Singing Histories
10 Reimagining Song at the Conservatoire
11 Mélodie Centre Stage

12 Postlude: Philosophies of Composition
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kilpatrick, Emily
Emily Kilpatrick is Associate Professor and Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London.