Author : Pierre Bernac
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 38,81 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 : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 26,98 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 : Eliza Zingesser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501747630
Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
Author : Louise Morgan-Williams
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 9780844214573
Foreign language study
Author : Brenda F. Berrian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226044552
The fast-paced zouk of Kassav', the romantic biguine of Malavoi, the jazz of Fal Frett, the ballads of Mona, and reggae of Kali and Pôglo are all part of the burgeoning popular music scene in the French Caribbean. In this lively book, Brenda F. Berrian chronicles the rise of this music, which has captivated the minds and bodies of the Francophone world and elsewhere. Based on personal interviews and discussions of song texts, Berrian shows how these musicians express their feelings about current and past events, about themselves, their islands, and the French. Through their lyrical themes, these songs create metaphorical "spaces" that evoke narratives of desire, exile, subversion, and Creole identity and experiences. Berrian opens up these spaces to reveal how the artists not only engage their listeners and effect social change, but also empower and identify themselves. She also explores the music as it relates to the art of drumming, and to genres such as African American and Latin jazz and reggae. With Awakening Spaces, Berrian adds fresh insight into the historical struggles and arts of the French Caribbean.
Author : Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1936239728
Yé-Yé means Yeah Yeah! and is best known as a style of '60s pop music heard in France and Québec.
Author : Graeme MacDonald Boone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780803212350
The relationship between text and music is a central issue in fifteenth-century music studies. Decades of research and performance have failed to provide clear answers to the most basic questions, such as which notes go with which syllables and why. Patterns in Play focuses on the early French songs of Guillaume Dufay and proposes a basis for determining some rules of common procedure for interpreting both underlay and style. Graeme M. Boone examines questions of rhythm and declamation, considering mensuration, linguistic and poetic prosody, and prosody in song. The first three chapters comprise a set of discussions preliminary to close rhythmic analysis of Dufay?s texted song melodies. Beginning with mensural rhythm and proceeding to poetics and the relationship between Dufay?s poetic and musical rhythms and musical declamation, Boone examines the musical features of rhythm, melody, tonal organization, counterpoint, text setting, and text expression. Offering fresh insight into the issues he raises, Boone clarifies the relationship between underlay and style and provides a better understanding of the technical and aesthetic issues that Dufay and other composers faced in weaving their patterns of song.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338219077X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879100049
The original texts of lieder are accompanied by line-by-line translations
Author : Max Spicker
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780342588961
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