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The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition

By: Andrew Deruchie

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The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition

By: Andrew Deruchie

In this first full-length study of the symphony in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, Andrew Deruchie provides extended critical discussion of seven of the most influential and frequently performed works of the era, by Camille Saint-Sa ns, C sar Franck, douard Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, and Paul Dukas. The volume explores how these symphonists modernized the art form yet preserved many of the formal and rhetorical conventions of the canon, reconciling, in particular, Beethoven's symphonic legacy with the musical culture, intellectual environment, and political milieu of fin-de-si cle France. Drawing on contemporary criticism, music histories, composers' prose, and unpublished sketches, Deruchie's readings offer fresh insights on issues of musical form and technique, and also move beyond the notes to consider questions of meaning. Andrew Deruchie is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Otago (New Zealand).

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1580463827

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Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs

A New Approach to the Romantic Lied

By: Andrew H. Weaver

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Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs

A New Approach to the Romantic Lied

By: Andrew H. Weaver

Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. Among the wide range of methodologies that have been used to understand and interpret his songs, one that has been conspicuously absent is an approach based on narratology (the theory and study of narrative texts). Proceeding from the premise that the performance of a Lied is a narrative act, in which the singer and pianist together function as a narrator, Andrew Weaver's groundbreaking study proposes a comprehensive theory of narratology for the German Romantic Lied and song cycle, using Schumann's complete song oeuvre as the test case. The theory, grounded in the work of narratologist Mieke Bal but also drawing upon recent work in literary theory and musicology, illuminates how music can open up new meanings for the poem, as well as how a narratological analysis of the poem can help us understand the music. Weaver's book offers new insights into Schumann's Lieder and the poetry he set while simultaneously proposing a methodology applicable to the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of works, including not only the rich treasury of German Lieder but also potentially any genre of accompanied song in any language from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition

By: Andrew Deruchie

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Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition

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The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs

Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs

The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle

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