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The Art of French Piano Music

Author : Roy Howat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145470
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Art of French Piano Music written by Roy Howat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context. Howat explores the musical language and artistic ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing issues. He also relates his four composers historically and stylistically to such predecessors as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, the French harpsichord school, and Russian and Spanish music. Challenging long-held assumptions about performance practice, Howat elucidates the rhythmic vitality and invention inherent in French music. In granting Faur� and Chabrier equal consideration with Debussy and Ravel, he redresses a historic imbalance and reshapes our perceptions of this entire musical tradition. Outstanding historical documentation and analysis are supported by Howat’s direct references to performing traditions shaped by the composers themselves. The book balances accessibility with scholarly and analytic rigor, combining a lifetime’s scholarship with practical experience of teaching and the concert platform

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music

Author : Lesley A. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317081633
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music written by Lesley A. Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions passed down from teacher to student. Themes that emerge demonstrate the importance of editions as a form of communication, the challenges of notation, the significance of detail and of deeper continuity, the importance of performing and teaching traditions, and the influence of cross disciplinary frameworks. A link to a set of performed examples on the frenchpianomusic.com website allows readers to hear and compare performances and interpretations of the music discussed. The volume will appeal to musicologists and analysts interested in performance, performers, students, and piano teachers.

Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193951
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music written by Siglind Bruhn and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems, paintings, and other non-musical art forms. In instrumental music such reinterpretations are especially intriguing as the verbal or visual stimulus does not appear in performance but is rendered in musical form. In this study, Siglind Bruhn investigates how three French composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Olivier Messiaen, express extra-musical subtexts in their piano works. She shows how the relation between the subtexts and the musical works can be broadly catagorized in terms of pictoriality and interiority. In all cases, Bruhn analyzes each musical piece and each source text in its entirety and in depth, drawing on her broad background in both literary and musical interpretation of the twentieth century. For pianists who seek to better understand an individual work, for scholars in the growing field of musical hermeneutics, and for lovers of music in general, this volume explores and makes explicit connections between music and other arts.

French Piano Music

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book French Piano Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Piano Music, An Anthology

Author : Isidore Philipp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486233812
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book French Piano Music, An Anthology written by Isidore Philipp and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid anthology of French piano music spans the 17th to 20th centuries, presenting 44 short works by 28 composers. Contents include Rameau's "The Hen," Gossec's "Gavotte," Saint-Saëns's "Song Without Words," Lully's "Courante in E Minor," Couperin's "Les Papillons," plus melodies by Daquin, Alkan, Delibes, Bizet, Massenet, and many others.

French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century

Author : Philip Hale
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486236803
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book French Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century written by Philip Hale and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lyric art song, in which the piano plays as large a part as the vocal melody, is one of the characteristic products of the 19th century. This collection of 39 songs from the romantic period spotlights 18 composers: Berlioz, Chausson, Debussy (6 songs), Gounod, Massenet, Thomas, and more. For high voice. French text, English singing translations.

French piano music of the early 20th century

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book French piano music of the early 20th century written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anthology of French piano music

Author : Isidore Philipp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthology of French piano music written by Isidore Philipp and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Images

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1574670689
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Images written by Paul Roberts and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.

French Music and Jazz in Conversation

Author : Deborah Mawer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194612
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book French Music and Jazz in Conversation written by Deborah Mawer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900–65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early 1960s, exhibited a distinct affinity with French musical impressionism. However, despite a general, if contested, interest in the cultural interplay of classical music and jazz, few writers have probed the specific French music-jazz relationship in depth. In this book, Deborah Mawer sets such musical interplay within its historical-cultural and critical-analytical contexts, offering a detailed yet accessible account of both French and American perspectives. Blending intertextuality with more precise borrowing techniques, Mawer presents case studies on the musical interactions of a wide range of composers and performers, including Debussy, Satie, Milhaud, Ravel, Jack Hylton, George Russell, Bill Evans and Dave Brubeck.

The Joy of French Piano Music

Author : Denes Agay
Publisher : Yorktown Music
ISBN 13 : 9780825680335
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of French Piano Music written by Denes Agay and published by Yorktown Music. This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Piano Music

Author : Norman Demuth
Publisher : London : Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book French Piano Music written by Norman Demuth and published by London : Museum Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'No country's composers', says the author, 'have so sedulously cultivated the piano as those of France.' In this book he surveys the whole panorama of French piano music, terminating with music written and published as late as 1936. In addition to discussing those composers whose names are now household words, Norman Demuth draws attention to many who, although duly recognised in France, do not often appear in piano programmes in this country. Among these we may single out Pierre de Bréville, Déodat de Séverac, Gustave Samazeuilh, André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux, Abel Decaux, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Henry Barraud, and Pierre Boulez. Olivier Messiaen is given sympathetic and understanding consideration. His remarks on interpretation will be found to be stimulating and challenging and will, it is hoped, save many players from falling into traps laid by custom. The publishers are confident that the volume will supply a long-felt need since nothing of this nature and little on this subject has previously appeared in this country." --Dust jacket flap.

The Pianist's Craft 2

Author : Richard P. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442232668
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Pianist's Craft 2 written by Richard P. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pianist’s Craft 2, pianist and scholar Richard P. Anderson gathers together a new collection of essays by renowned performing artists and teachers and discusses the preparation, pedagogy, and performance of selected works by an entirely different set of composers whose works are standard in the piano literature. In this volume, readers will find an invaluable collection of contributions on C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Soler, Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Fauré, Erno Dohnányi, Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Alberto Ginastera, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage. The contributors—all nationally and internationally recognized as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians—write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years. Each author addresses issues unique to an individual composer, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and preparing these great works—information otherwise available only in conferences, master classes, and private lessons. This collection, with more than 250 musical illustrations, is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music.

French Art Song

Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250548
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book French Art Song written by Emily Kilpatrick and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study of the musical and literary priorities, professional practices and creative interactions that shaped one of the most adventurous artforms of the Belle Époque.

Debussy's Resonance

Author : François De Médicis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1580465250
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Debussy's Resonance written by François De Médicis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.

The Pianist's Dictionary

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304734X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Pianist's Dictionary written by Maurice Hinson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A to Z to middle C: An “essential reference” for piano students, teachers, players, and music lovers, with hundreds of definitions (E.L. Lancaster, Alfred Music). The Pianist’s Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms, performance directions, composers, pianists, famous piano pieces, and piano makers. The authors’ succinct entries make The Pianist’s Dictionary the perfect reference for compiling program and liner notes, studying scores, and learning and teaching the instrument. “This new edition is a go-to source for piano scholars and students for quick information on musical terms, pianists, major works in the piano repertoire, piano manufacturers, and more . . . comprehensive, easy to use.” —Jane Magrath, University of Oklahoma

Grainger the Modernist

Author : Suzanne Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317125010
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Grainger the Modernist written by Suzanne Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni, Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular, jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British, American and Australian contexts, the authors create a profile of a composer, propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day, and, in some cases, anticipated their practical experiments.