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Author:   Kimberly A. Francis (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Guelph, Guelph)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780199373697

ISBN 10:   0199373698
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   20 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Note on Translations and Transliterations Abbreviations Note on Sources About the Companion Website Introduction Boulanger and Bourdieu Chapter Overview PART ONE 1. Foundations (1929-1932) Membre de famille: Boulanger and Soulima Stravinsky A trip to Brussels Lessons and love 2. Master Copy: Correcting the Symphonie de psaumes Editorial process and power Soulima Stravinsky and advanced studies Main idea or major and minor thirds A dialogue established 3. Surviving the Great Depression: 1932-1936 The last Parisian project: Perséphone Loss and recovery: 1935-36 4. Beyond France: 1937-1939 Dumbarton Oaks Increasing tensions, failing health Toward war PART TWO 5. The War, 1940-1942 Romantic complications American reunions 6. Together, 1942-1945 1943 1944 1945 A way home Residue/rupture 7. Redefining a Partnership, Reestablishing an Icon: 1946-1949 Stravinsky's Mass The beginning of the end PART THREE 8. The Last Project: The Rake's Progress, 1948-1952 An opera The premiere: ""I've never seen such disorder"" Composition in early cold war America After Europe: A Rake's reception 9. Mediating Serialism A dialogue dissolves Concerts and commissions post-1952 Boulanger teaches Stravinsky's twelve-tone music 10. Insider/Outsider Stravinsky's Failing Health Conclusion Bibliography"

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[Teaching Stravinsky] add[s] to the understanding of this immensely talented and influential twentieth-century musician...I can recommend...to those interested in the career of one of the great musicians of the last century. --Classical Net

Author Information

Kimberly A. Francis is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Guelph, Canada, where she specializes in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and feminist musicology. She serves as Editor-in-Chief for the University of Guelph's award-winning journal Critical Voices: The University of Guelph Book Review Project and served as co-supervisor for the digitization of the Don Campbell Papers at the American Music Research Centre. Dr. Francis has been the recipient of a number of grants, including those from the American Musicological Society and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her numerous articles have appeared in everything from The Musical Quarterly to the Journal of the Society for American Music.

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