Overview

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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Author:   Tom Gordon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138984868

ISBN 10:   1138984868
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   28 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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"""A collection of fourteen very fine essays...Loosley grouped into four sections..., the general sense is...of increasing richness...Regarding Fauré is an indispensable addition to any scholarly collection and a welcome contribution, not only to Fauré scholarship, but to the study of the cultural life of fin de siéle Paris."" -- Notes"

A collection of fourteen very fine essays...Loosley grouped into four sections..., the general sense is...of increasing richness...Regarding Faure is an indispensable addition to any scholarly collection and a welcome contribution, not only to Faure scholarship, but to the study of the cultural life of fin de siele Paris. -- Notes

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