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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fauré"”.
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
The Promethean characteristics of contemporary young iconoclasts as they have expressed disapproval of the society which they have inherited and in which they feel entrapped prompted this study. Our interest here lies with the nature of the dissatisfaction rather than with ways of expressing it. If …
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Pénélope in the Press, 1913: The Early Critical Reception of Gabriel Fauré's Only Opera
Gabriel Fauré's single full-scale opera, Pénélope, has been virtually forgotten since it premiered in 1913. This thesis provides the first detailed account of Pénélope's critical reception during the year of its premiere. Given that the opera was received enthusiastically by the press, many Fauré …
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Stylistic characteristics of Gabriel Fauré's piano quartets and piano quintets
Gabriel Fauré has been neglected as composer in terms of international recognition. It is indeed true that the art of his music is not revealed at first sight: one must take time to discover the beauty and authentic meaning concealed in the depths thereof. While it is relatively true that musicians …
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Light From Behind the Iron Curtain: Anti-Collectivist Style in Edison Denisov's Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano, With Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bach, Beaser, Carter, Fauré, Martin, Ibert, Liebermann, and Others
An examination of the compositional style illustrative of the anti-collectivist ideology as found in Edison Denisov's Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano. Includes a short history of Denisov's formal training, history of the Soviet musical environment, an overview of his creative output, and …
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A musical discussion and analysis of romance sans paroles by three French composers : Charles-Francois Gounod, Camille Saint-Saens and Gabriel Faure
… Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Gabriel Fauré. The Romance Sans Parole genre seems to be quite unknown in the piano field; as a result, there are few secondary sources available. By immersing myself in these scores, I sought to discover their musical value and compositional nuance and …
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Identifying French Compositional Styles: Subtlety Through Familiarity
… and familiarity in rhythm and harmony. Both Fauré's <em>Berceuse</em> (1878-9) and Ravel's <em>Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faur</em>é (1922) are representative of small form pieces written by French composers; in addition, the relationship of the two works is particularly striking as Fauré …
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The Development, Tradition, and Global Influence of the Paris Conservatoire Flute Examinations
… Concert, Op.82, (year of concours: 1896)Gabriel Fauré - Fantasie, Op.79, (year of concours: 1898) Cécile Chaminade - Concertino, Op.107, (year of concours: 1902) Louis Ganne - Andante et Scherzo (year of concours: 1901) Philippe Gaubert - Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando (year of concours: 1906) …
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Jules Massenet's Musical Prosody Focusing on His Eight Song Cycles And A Collection, Expressions Lyriques: A Lecture Recital, Together with Recitals of Selected Works of W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, C. Debussy, R. Strauss, D. Argento, V. Bellini, J. Marx, W. Walton, C. Gounod, A. Scarlatti, G. Fauré, J. Rodrigo, H. Wolf, and Others
… to the climatic time of French mélodie led by Fauré, and Debussy, and Duparc.
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“It’s the Secret to the Universe”: The Communicative Constitution and Routinization of a Dominant Authoritative Text within a UK Cosmetics Company
… show how texts periodically exercise authority (Fauré et al., 2010; Güney and Creswell, 2012; Holm and Fairhurst, 2017; Jordan et al., 2013; Koschmann, 2012; Spee and Jarzabkowski, 2011), a dominant text enhances knowledge about how authority routinely organizes activities which constitute and …
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Structural processes in Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes for piano
… study constitutes an investigation of Gabriel Fauré's achievements in the genre of the piano nocturne through detailed analysis of each of his thirteen nocturnes. Fauré's nocturnes are widely considered to be representative of his pianistic style and musical language, showing a great spectrum …
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A Performer's Analysis of Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel: Song Cycle for High Voice and Piano; a Lecture Recital Together with the Role of Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites by F. Poulenc and Two Recitals of Selected Works by H. Purcell, F. Schubert, S. Prokofieff, E. Chausson, W. A. Mozart, R. Schumann and G. Fauré
… of the great composers of her time including Fauré, Debussy and Wagner combined with her own creative expression. The result is a compelling musical language that was uniquely her own. She held an important place among her contemporaries in Paris and her accomplishments were considered …
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Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France
… on three such composers, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré, and Erik Satie, and the ways in which they incorporated aspects of plainchant in their works. Examination of the arguments advanced by nineteenth-century scholars not only reveals the issues that arise when plainchant melodies are placed in …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
… the piece when he was a student of Gabriel Fauré, to whom the piece is dedicated. Ravel explained his piece in the following way: "Jeux d'eau, appearing in 1901, is at the origin of the pianistic novelties which one would notice in my work. This piece, inspired by the noise of the water and …