Faure and French Musical Aesthetics
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Faure and French Musical Aesthetics by Carlo Caballero
This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Faur and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to Faur 's music and ideas. Taking a broad view of cultural life during the composer's lifetime and beyond, the book moves between specific details in Faur 's music and related critical, literary and philosophical issues, ranging from Gounod to Boulez and from Proust to Val ry. Above all, the book connects abstract values to artistic choices and thus places such works as Faur 's Requiem, La bonne chanson, La chanson d'Eve, L'horizon chim rique, and the chamber music in a new light.
'The wealth of music examples he quotes is beautifully printedHis research is impeccable. An enlightening book.' James Harding, BBC Music Magazine
'Unified by recurring ideas and methodology as useful as the music itself. It holds a mirror to the composer's meticulous, art-concealing art and should remain a landmark in French cultural studies for a long time to come.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… stimulating … it is hard to imagine that this finely researched, well produced and wide ranging study will not significantly enrich the reader's experience of Fauré's music. … this book broadens the perspective not only laterally, as it were, exploring the influences, ethics and perspectives that shaped Fauré's own environment, but upwards, chronologically speaking, taking in the heritage of the composer and his cultural milieu as it affected such non-Fauréan figures as Stravinsky, Varèse, Messiaen and particularly Boulez.' Piano
'Unified by recurring ideas and methodology as useful as the music itself. It holds a mirror to the composer's meticulous, art-concealing art and should remain a landmark in French cultural studies for a long time to come.' The Times Literary Supplement
'… stimulating … it is hard to imagine that this finely researched, well produced and wide ranging study will not significantly enrich the reader's experience of Fauré's music. … this book broadens the perspective not only laterally, as it were, exploring the influences, ethics and perspectives that shaped Fauré's own environment, but upwards, chronologically speaking, taking in the heritage of the composer and his cultural milieu as it affected such non-Fauréan figures as Stravinsky, Varèse, Messiaen and particularly Boulez.' Piano
Carlo Caballero is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521543989 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521543983 |
| Title | Faure and French Musical Aesthetics |
| Author | Carlo Caballero |
| Series | Music In The Twentieth Century |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2004-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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