Author : Pierre Bernac
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393008784
Provides general instructions for the performance and interpretation of French melodies and analyzes vocal works by eighteen composers including Berlioz, Duparc, Debussy, and Ravel
Author : Graham Johnson
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631495240
One of the greatest modernist composers comes alive in this illuminating biography, a must-have for musicians and music-lovers alike. Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s most significant masters of vocal music —solo, choral, and operatic— quite apart from his achievements in instrumental spheres. But what it cost him, and the determined bravery it took for his unusual talent to thrive, has always been underestimated. In this seminal biography, which will serve as the definitive guide to the songs, acclaimed collaborative pianist Graham Johnson shows that it is in Poulenc’s extraordinary songs, and seeing how they fit into his life —which included crippling guilt on account of his sexuality— that we discover Poulenc heart and soul. With Jeremy Sams’s vibrant new song translations, the first in over forty years, and the insight that comes from a lifetime of performing this music, Johnson provides an essential volume for singers, pianists, listeners, and readers interested in the artistic milieu of modernism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : David Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : French language
ISBN : 019763950X
Now in its third edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French. Combining traditional approaches in the teaching of diction with new material not readily available elsewhere, author David Adams presents the sounds of each language in logical order, along with essential information on matters such as diacritical marks, syllabification, word stress, and effective use of the variety of foreign-language dictionaries. A Handbook of Diction for Singers places particular emphasis on the characteristics of vowel length, the sequencing of sounds between words, as well as the differences between spoken and sung sounds in all three languages, all while taking care to clarify concepts typically difficult for English-speaking singers. This revised third edition offers significantly expanded coverage of each language as well as a new chapter that introduces readers to the specific sounds unique to those languages. The result is a concise yet thorough treatment of the three major languages of the classical vocal repertory, and an invaluable reference for vocalists and voice teachers.
Author : Bruno Forment
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9462704147
To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this delicate act in critical ways. Offering first-hand insights into the notational, structural and interpretative challenges faced by musicians in dealing with texts of all kinds, the chapters traverse the spectrum between the Middle Ages and the age of Stockhausen. In a harmonious blend of scholarly allure and individual artistry, free from academic obfuscation, the contributors keep a keen eye on the limits of interpretation, both in terms of the interpretative process itself and of the balance between textual faithfulness and artistic autonomy. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in the relationship between musical performance and texts.
Author : Martha Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300109320
Muziekhistorisch en musicologisch overzicht van de klassieke solozang vanaf de barok tot heden.
Author : François Le Roux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0197552285
In this translation of the groundbreaking Le Chant Intime, internationally renowned baritone François Le Roux, in conversation with journalist Romain Raynaldy, presents a master class on French art song, with a thorough analysis of 60 selected songs that deviate from the traditionally narrow repertoire of the mélodie genre. Taking an approach that goes far beyond the typical limiting conventions, Le Roux and Raynaldy adhere to composer Francis Poulenc's principle that a song should always be "a love affair, not an arranged marriage." Neither theoretical nor purely academic, this guide instills in its readers a deep appreciation for the historical and artistic context of each piece by enriching each analysis with the full text of the lyrical poem and several musical examples, as well as fascinating details of historic premieres, concert halls, singers and poets. Paired with intensive and practical notes related to the nuances of melody and vocal delivery, each analysis provides an essential reference for performers and listeners alike. The translation is due to the expertise of musicologist and pianist Sylvia Kahan, Professor of Music at the Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Author : George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Opera
ISBN :
Author : Graham Johnson
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199249664
A French Song Companion is an indispensable guide to the modern repertoire and the most comprehensive book of French melodie in any language. Noted accompanist Graham Johnson provides repertoire guides to the work of over 150 composers--the majority of them from France but including British, American, German, Spanish, and Italian musicians who have written French vocal music. The book contains major articles on Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, as well as essays on Bizet, Chabrier, Gounod, Chausson, Hahn, and Satie, and important reassessments of such composers as Massenet, Koechlin, and Leguerney. The book combines these articles with the complete texts in English of over 700 songs, all translated by Richard Stokes, making it also a treasury of French poetry from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. The translations alone will prove invaluable to music lovers and performers; combined with the biographical articles, they become the ideal map for exploring this exciting and diverse repertoire.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Audio-visual materials
ISBN :
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Author : JamesH. Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351550713
Introducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the productive exchange-from rivalry to inspiration to collaboration-between the two media in the age of Romanticism and Modernism. The volume traces the relationship between art and music, from the opposing claims for superiority of the early nineteenth century, to the emergence of the concept of synesthesia around 1900. This collection puts forward a more complex history of the relationship between art and music than has been described in earlier works, including an intermixing of models and distinctions between approaches to them. Individual essays from art history, musicology, and literature examine the growing influence of art upon music, and vice versa, in the works of Berlioz, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Rodin, Debussy, and the Pre-Raphaelites, among other artists.
