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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"French music"”.
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Inspiring the Nation: French Music about Jeanne d'Arc in the 1930s and 1940s
… and wartime France, investigates the wealth of music dedicated to Jeanne d'Arc during the tumultuous 1930s and 1940s. Jeanne d'Arc's status as an ambivalent symbol of French nationalism allows a novel appraisal of both the music of this period and its larger historical issues: the formation of …
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
… force on the priorities and techniques of musicologists and composers in fin-de-siècle France, and examines how ideologies of Indo-Europeanism (or aryanism), concomitant with comparative philology, generated efforts to ‘sound out’ Indo-Europeanism in music. Using a relational approach, …
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An Analytical and Educational Survey of Roger Boutry's Métachrome
… survey of Roger Boutry's Metachrome, a French wind band piece written in 2003. Part I of this project explores the history of modem French music. Part II is an analytical perspective of the composition. Part III presents a teaching approach, including teaching materials such as lesson …
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Ars Gallica: The Societe Nationale De Musique and Its Role in French Musical Life, 1871-1891
… space is given over to an examination of French concert life during the Second Empire and in the twenty years after the Franco-Prussian War, with particular emphasis placed on the amount and types of new French music being performed by various Parisian concert organizations.
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Do music and art influence one another? Measuring cross-modal similarities in music and art
<p>The visual arts and music are known to interact with one another on both an individual scale (such as music-inspired synesthetes and artist-musician duos) and on a grand scale (such as the art movement Baroque, wherein abstract qualities such as "ornamentation" permeate both media). The aim of …
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Beyond Prima Donna: Pauline Viardot’s Collaboration on Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, Gounod’s Sapho, and Berlioz’s Arrangement of Orphée
… from which to share the full extent of her musical abilities. Viardot’s capabilities as a performer are widely acknowledged and reviewed throughout history; however, her contributions to French music beyond simply singing are only beginning to be understood. Her Thursday night salon promoted …
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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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Descartes' Letters to Pere marin Mersenne, Le Minime, on the Science of Sound and Music, 1629-40
… influential to the history of acoustics and music theory, directly or indirectly. They include Compendium musicae (1618), Traité de l'homme (1632), Discours de la méthode and La dioptrique (1637), and Les passions de l'ame (1649). This thesis also represents the only translation of all …
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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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Graduate Recital, Flute
Andre Jolivet is an iconic figure in contemporary French music. Many of his composition have a unique configuration of high character, maturity, combined with a sense of mysticism, religious influence, and the concept of returning to its origin give the foundation for Jolivet's music. Jolivet's …
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Playing Rameau on the piano : the Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin
While the keyboard music of J. S. Bach, Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti draws the attention of modern pianists, that of their French contemporary Jean-Philippe Rameau is rarely heard today. I believe that upon properly understanding the performance practices of Rameau’s day, as well as piano and …
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Camille Saint-Säens' Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Opus 103: An Analytical Study of Form, Compositional Techniques, and a Performance Perspective
… his life, compositions, contemporaries, and French music in general. Although his life is well documented, most sources present only brief analyses of his works; there is not one single comprehensive and exhaustive study of the Piano Concerto in F Major, Opus 103, available in the current …
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Synthesis of Style in Gabriel Faure's Preludes for Piano
… occupies an important position in the history of French music. Through his conscious rejection of the influences of German romanticism he was instrumental in the recovery of artis tic standards which are thought of as typically French— logic, clar ity, moderation, balance— qualities which link …
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Eloquence and Music: the Querelle des Bouffons in Rhetorical Context
… as the fundamental tenets of both eloquence and music, to frame a wide-ranging debate that ultimately rethinks the two arts' roles. The supporters of Italian music (known as the coin de la reine) and the partisans of French music (known as the coin du roi) adhere to this common context, while …
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A structural, harmonic and stylistic analysis of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C Minor Op. 15
… outstanding accomplishments in the history of French music. His style, though showing the influence of late-Romantic music, is unique and comprises some of the most inventive harmonic language to be found in Western music. It is characterised by the complex integration of advanced tonal and …
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Chopin's Cantabile in Context
… and tempo rubato in both vocal and instrumental music. Although modern scholarship has recognized diverse elements of cantabile, particularly in nineteenth-century opera, its signature features of ornamentation and tempo rubato remain comparatively unexplored in relation to the essential domain …
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FRENCH TENOR TROMBONE SOLO LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGY SINCE 1836.
… to acquaint trombonists with the vast amount of French solo literature and pedagogical materials available, as well as to promote an understanding of their origins and uses. The dissertation is divided into two major sections: (1) the history of the Paris Conservatory and its trombone teachers; …
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The consort suite in the German-speaking lands (1660-1705)
… the political machinations of the period, French cultural influence was very strong in Germany. The music of Jean-Baptiste Lully swept through the German courts during the 1670s and '80s, and remained the dominant influence in German suite writing until the early part of the eighteenth …
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Philosophical Implications on Trombone Performance and Pedagogy in Andre Lafosse's Curriculum at the Paris Conservatory
… Lafosse's own experiences as an orchestral musician in France in the early 20th century. Lafosse designed and used his treatise to prepare students to be effective teachers after their graduation from the Conservatory. The scope of preparation for Lafosse's trombone class, however, was …
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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
… an important composer of early twentieth century French music. Her compositional style represents a development and mastery of musical techniques of the great composers of her time including Fauré, Debussy and Wagner combined with her own creative expression. The result is a compelling musical …
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