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<br> Bergeron succeeds in presenting both music professionals and amateurs with an invaluable resource on French m lodie in the Belle Epoque. The reader gains a comprehensive understanding of the genre and may even develop an appreciation and inquisitiveness for period recordings. Bergeron set out to bring to life a lost tradition and in so doing achieves her goal of explaining to the reader what the French m lodie meant to the people of its time and why it mattered to them. --Notes<p><br> Voice Lessons works well: one reads text, examines the pictures, studies printed score, and hears the historic and modern sounds all at once, cross-referencing at will. --H-France Review<p><br>

<br> Bergeron succeeds in presenting both music professionals and amateurs with an invaluable resource on French m?lodie in the Belle Epoque. The reader gains a comprehensive understanding of the genre and may even develop an appreciation and inquisitiveness for period recordings. Bergeron set out to bring to life a lost tradition and in so doing achieves her goal of explaining to the reader what the French m?lodie meant to the people of its time and why it mattered to them. --Notes<p><br> Voice Lessons works well: one reads text, examines the pictures, studies printed score, and hears the historic and modern sounds all at once, cross-referencing at will. --H-France Review<p><br>

<br> Bergeron succeeds in presenting both music professionals and amateurs with an invaluable resource on French m lodie in the Belle Epoque. The reader gains a comprehensive understanding of the genre and may even develop an appreciation and inquisitiveness for period recordings. Bergeron set out to bring to life a lost tradition and in so doing achieves her goal of explaining to the reader what the French m lodie meant to the people of its time and why it mattered to them. --Notes<p><br> Voice Lessons works well: one reads text, examines the pictures, studies printed score, and hears the historic and modern sounds all at once, cross-referencing at will. --H-France Review<p><br> The early recordings she discusses are essential to her analysis, and their presence on Oxford's website is invaluable...Bergeron's writing is poetic and even luminous...She is a careful guide. --French Studies<p><br>

<br> Bergeron succeeds in presenting both music professionals and amateurs with an invaluable resource on French m lodie in the Belle Epoque. The reader gains a comprehensive understanding of the genre and may even develop an appreciation and inquisitiveness for period recordings. Bergeron set out to bring to life a lost tradition and in so doing achieves her goal of explaining to the reader what the French m lodie meant to the people of its time and why it mattered to them. --Notes<p><br>

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Katherine Bergeron is Dean of the College and Professor of Music at Brown University

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