French art song : history of a new music, 1870-1914 /

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Author / Creator:	Kilpatrick, Emily, author.
Imprint:	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; 186 Eastman studies in music ; 186.
Subject:	Songs -- France -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Songs -- France -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Songs, French -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Songs, French -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Songs. Songs, French. France. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12781058

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ISBN:	9781648250545 1648250548 9781800108103 9781800108110
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"French art song, or mélodie, was one of the most radical and exploratory artforms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was also among the most intimate, a genre of experimentation, hesitation and unfiltered artistic conversation. In this landmark history, Emily Kilpatrick charts the compositional preoccupations and literary stimuli, the friendships and rivalries, critical narratives and performance practices that shaped French art song between 1870 and the First World War. She traces the expanding horizons of an essentially new musical idiom, moving from the lively debates of the avant-garde to the social and artistic contradictions of the salons, the pedagogy of the Paris Conservatoire, and the eventual accession of song to the concert platform and a central place in the musical imagination. The mélodie of the Belle Époque flourished amidst a culture of creative collaboration, and through the musicianship and advocacy of performers as well as composers. Setting key works by Fauré, Duparc, Chausson, Debussy and Ravel alongside historical curiosities and hidden gems, French Art Song: History of a New Music probes composer-performer relationships and the shaping of performance traditions, and addresses the challenges faced by the twenty-first century interpreter. Kilpatrick twines cultural history with musical insight and a wealth of previously unpublished source material, in a wide-ranging and richly detailed account of the public and private faces of musical invention"--
Other form:	Online version: Kilpatrick, Emily. French art song Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2022 9781800108103

Table of Contents:

Part I: Poet. Baudelaire's invitation to composers ; Song and memory in the 'Terrible Year' ; 'To the depths of the Unknown in search of the new!'
Interlude. The poet sings
Part II. Singer. Mélodie at the crossroads ; Song, salons and the 'society singer' ; Collaboration and creative process
Interlude. The voices of Fêtes galantes
Part III. Public. Singing histories ; Reimagining song at the Conservatoire ; Mélodie centre stage ; Postlude. Philosophies of composition.

French art song : history of a new music, 1870-1914 /

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