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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"French composers"”.
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Works for Violin and Piano by French Composers, 1870-1950
During the first half of the nineteenth century, French composers primarily wrote vocal music; few of them composed works for violin and piano. From about 1870, French composers turned their attention to the violin-piano repertoire, producing some of the greatest works of the genre. Three …
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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
… Paroles (song without words), written by three French composers, Charles-François 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 …
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The Influence of Jazz on the Solo Trumpet Compositions of Eugène Bozza
… on the nine solo trumpet compositions of the French composer Eugène Bozza (1905-1991). Bozza, like many other French composers in the first half of the 20th century, combines traditional elements of western European art music with innovations of American popular music. While Bozza holds a …
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Aesthetics of neoclassicism and populism in chamber works for woodwinds by Charles Koechlin and Francis Poulenc, 1918-1939
… the arts. The question of what is authentically French became and all encompassing obsession for intellectuals as well as those whose aims were purely political. During this period, chamber music in France began to flourish. Charles Koechlin and Francis Poulenc are two examples of French …
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A study and catalogue of French flute music written between 1945 and 2008
French contemporary flute works are seldom performed outside France, and most of the composers are relatively unknown to the rest of the world. These works often include new instrumental performance techniques, known as ‘extended techniques’ or avant-garde techniques, which were developed by …
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Symphonic Culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The Bande à Franck and Beyond
… of theatrical entertainment had dominated the French musical scene. In the final decades of the century, however, a generation of French composers devoted considerable efforts to large-scale symphonic forms. A driving force in the advancement of orchestral music was the "Franck circle" or bande …
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The French Piano Prelude: Elizabeth Jacquet De La Guerre To Olivier Messiaen
… dependent on the aesthetic thinking of different composers. In particular, the prelude has been an important compositional style for French composers from Louis Couperin to the present day. Unmeasured preludes, in which the duration of each note is allowed to the performer, were utilized as …
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Identifying French Compositional Styles: Subtlety Through Familiarity
<p>In this study, I examine two French berceuses for violin and piano to identify common compositional traits, specifically subtlety 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 …
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Formal convention in Verdi's Falstaff
… finales of middle and late nineteenth-century French composers. In addition to revealing a stylistic continuity between Falstaff and earlier operas, an awareness of the reliance of certain passages in Falstaff on formal conventions from earlier in the nineteenth century allows for a more …
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Powerful Structures: The Wind Music of Ida Gotkovsky in Theory and Practice
Ida Gotkovsky is a French composer whose style has emerged as a unique voice in the wind repertoire of the late twentieth century, while retaining stylistic traits of earlier French composers. As a product of the Paris Conservatory (where she was also a professor), she is part of a heritage that …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
… acclaimed as one of France's preeminent composers of contemporary music. He is unique among contemporary French composers of the post-Second World War generation for his singular affiliation to the development of his own personal style, notably at the avoidance of serialist-influenced …
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French Accompanied Keyboard Music (1738-1760): A Study of Texture and Style Mixture
French accompanied keyboard music published between the late 1730s and early 1760s generally contains a written-out keyboard part with one or more accompanying instruments. In this genre we find, for the first time, that the keyboard plays an equal, if not the more dominant, role in ensemble …
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Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France
… often including the use of accidentals. French scholars and educators of the time, like Louis Niedermeyer and his collaborator Joseph d’Ortigue, viewed such practices as a corruption of plainchant and sought to reform the ways in which plainchant was harmonized on the organ.</p> <p>The …