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Presents new research on Fauré by leading scholars, encompassing hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.
List of contents
Foreword Jean-Michel Nectoux; 1. Patrons and society: Gabriel Fauré's 'other' career in the Paris and London music salons Sylvia Kahan; 2. Keys to the ineffable in Fauré: criticism, history, aesthetics Hervé Lacombe; 3. Fauré as student and teacher of harmony Robert O. Gjerdingen; 4. Romancing the mélodie, or generic dialogue in Fauré's early songs Stephen Rumph; 5. Lux æterna: Fauré's messe de requiem, op. 48 Byron Adams; 6. From Homer's banquet to Fauchois' feast: The Odyssey's odyssey Sander Goldberg; 7. Orchestral melody in Pénélope: aspects of Wagner's influence on Fauré Mathieu Schneider; 8. Fauré the practical interpreter Roy Howat; 9. Fauré, orientalism, and le voile du bonheur Carlo Caballero and Leslee Smucker; 10. Jankélévitch, Fauré, and the thirteenth nocturne Steven Rings.
About the author
Carlo Caballero is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Faureì and French Musical Aesthetics and has published essays in Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Music, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and many edited collections. His current projects include studies of social continuities in French music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the historiography of nineteenth-century ballet, and a second monograph on Faureì.Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Fauré Song Cycles (forthcoming). Other publications include Beethoven After Napoleon (2004) and Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (2011) and articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Music Association, 19th-Century Music, and other periodicals. In 2015 he co-organized the international conference 'Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Fauré and the Limits of Criticism'.
Summary
Showcases new research by leading scholars on the life and music of Gabriel Fauré, contemporary of Monet and Mallarmé and one of the most influential of all French composers. This book encompasses hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.
