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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

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Gabriel Fauré

A Musical Life

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

This book traces Fauré's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521616956

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Epistemic Forces in International Law

By: Jean d'Aspremont

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Epistemic Forces in International Law

By: Jean d'Aspremont

Epistemic Forces in International Law examines the methodological choices of international lawyers through considering theories of statehood, sources, institutions and law-making. From this examination, Jean d'Aspremont presents a discerning insigh

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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178195528X

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9781781955284

Formalism and the Sources of International Law

A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules

By: Jean d'Aspremont

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Formalism and the Sources of International Law

A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules

By: Jean d'Aspremont

This book revisits the theory of the sources of international law from the perspective of formalism. It critically analyses the virtues of formalism, construed as a theory of law ascertainment, as a means of distinguishing between law and non-law. The theory of formalism is re-evaluated against the backdrop of the growing acceptance by international legal theorists of the blurring of the lines between law and non-law. At the same time, the book acknowledges that much international normative activity nowadays takes place outside the ambit of traditional international law and that only a limited part of the exercise of public authority at the international level results in the creation of international legal rules. The theory of ascertainment that the book puts forward attempts to dispel some of the illusions of formalism that accompany the traditional sources of international law. It also sheds light on the tendency of scholars, theorists, and advocates to deformalize the identification of international legal rules with a view to expanding international law. The book seeks to revitalize and refresh the formal identification of rules by engaging with some tenets of the postmodern critique of formalism. As a result, the book not only grapples with the practice of law-making at the international level, but it also offers broad theoretical insights on international law, dealing with the main schools of thought in legal theory (positivism, naturalism, legal realism, policy-oriented jurisprudence, and postmodernism). This paperback edition features the author's discussion of this book on the EJIL Talk blog.

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OUP Oxford

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0191504831

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9780191504839

Britain’s Olympic Women

A History

By: Jean Williams

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Britain’s Olympic Women

A History

By: Jean Williams

Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the key themes of gender and nationalism, and presenting a wealth of new empirical, archival evidence, the book explores the sporting culture produced by British women who aspired to become Olympians, from the early years of the modern Olympic movement. It shines new light on the frameworks imposed on female athletes, individually and as a group, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the various affiliated sporting international federations. Using oral history and family history sources, the book tells of the social processes through which British Olympic women have become both heroes and anti-heroes in the public consciousness. Exploring the hidden narratives around women such as Charlotte Cooper, Lottie Dod, Audrey Brown and Pat Smythe, and bringing the story into the modern era of London 2012, Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the book helps us to better understand the complicated relationship between sport, gender, media and wider society. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, Olympic history, women’s history, British history or gender studies.

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Routledge

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1000163202

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9781000163209

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

By: Jean-Claude Favez

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The Red Cross and the Holocaust

By: Jean-Claude Favez

This book presents a startling assessment of the role of the Red Cross in the Holocaust.

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Cambridge University Press

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052141587X

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Music and Discourse

Toward a Semiology of Music

By: Jean-Jacques Nattiez

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Music and Discourse

Toward a Semiology of Music

By: Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Series statement on p. [4] of cover, paperback edition.

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Princeton University Press

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0691027145

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Societies and Nature in the Sahel

By: Philippe Lavigne Delville,Emmanuel Gregoire,Pierre Janin,Claude Raynaut,Jean Koechlin

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Societies and Nature in the Sahel

By: Philippe Lavigne Delville,Emmanuel Gregoire,Pierre Janin,Claude Raynaut,Jean Koechlin

Examining the conditions for land occupation and natural resource use in the Sahel, this book offers a conceptual and practical approach to social organization and environmental management in the face of rapid environmental change.

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Routledge

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1134769067

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Steel Bridges

Conceptual and Structural Design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges

By: Manfred Hirt,Jean-Paul Lebet

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Steel Bridges

Conceptual and Structural Design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges

By: Manfred Hirt,Jean-Paul Lebet

This English translation of the successful French edition presents the conception and design of steel and steel-concrete composite bridges, from simple beam bridges to cable supported structures. The book focuses primarily on road bridges, emphasizing the basis of their conception and the fundamentals that must be considered to assure structural safety and serviceability, as well as highlighting the necessary design checks. The principles are extended in later chapters to railway bridges as well as bridges for pedestrians and cyclists. Particular attention is paid to consideration of the dynamic performance.

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CRC Press

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1466572965

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9781466572966

Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop

By: Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe

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Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop

By: Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe

Yé-Yé means Yeah Yeah! and is best known as a style of '60s pop music heard in France and Québec.

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Feral House

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1936239728

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9781936239726

A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Sporting Women, 1850-1960

By: Jean Williams

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A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Sporting Women, 1850-1960

By: Jean Williams

This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.

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Routledge

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131774666X

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Elements of Neurogeometry

Functional Architectures of Vision

By: Jean Petitot

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Elements of Neurogeometry

Functional Architectures of Vision

By: Jean Petitot

This book describes several mathematical models of the primary visual cortex, referring them to a vast ensemble of experimental data and putting forward an original geometrical model for its functional architecture, that is, the highly specific organization of its neural connections. The book spells out the geometrical algorithms implemented by this functional architecture, or put another way, the “neurogeometry” immanent in visual perception. Focusing on the neural origins of our spatial representations, it demonstrates three things: firstly, the way the visual neurons filter the optical signal is closely related to a wavelet analysis; secondly, the contact structure of the 1-jets of the curves in the plane (the retinal plane here) is implemented by the cortical functional architecture; and lastly, the visual algorithms for integrating contours from what may be rather incomplete sensory data can be modelled by the sub-Riemannian geometry associated with this contact structure. As such, it provides readers with the first systematic interpretation of a number of important neurophysiological observations in a well-defined mathematical framework. The book’s neuromathematical exploration appeals to graduate students and researchers in integrative-functional-cognitive neuroscience with a good mathematical background, as well as those in applied mathematics with an interest in neurophysiology.

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Springer

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3319655914

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Ravel

A Novel

By: Jean Echenoz

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Ravel

A Novel

By: Jean Echenoz

Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz. The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel—dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon—crosses the Atlantic abroad the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant grand tour of the United States. A “master magician of the French novel” (The Washington Post), Echenoz captures the folly of the era as well as its genius, including Ravel’s personal life—sartorially and socially splendid—as well as his most successful compositions from 1927 to 1937. Illuminated by flashes of Echenoz’s characteristically sly humor, Ravel is a delightfully quirky portrait of a famous musician coping with the ups and downs of his illustrious career. It is also a beautifully written novel that’s a deeply touching farewell to a dignified and lonely man going reluctantly into the night.

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New Press, The

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1595586709

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Citizen Outsider

Children of North African Immigrants in France

By: Jean Beaman

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Citizen Outsider

Children of North African Immigrants in France

By: Jean Beaman

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.

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Univ of California Press

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0520967445

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Correspondence, 1932-1960

By: Albert Camus,Jean Grenier

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Correspondence, 1932-1960

By: Albert Camus,Jean Grenier

As a philosophy teacher, mentor, and friend, Jean Grenier (1898?1971) had an enormous influence on the young Albert Camus (1913?1960), who, in fact, acknowledged that Grenier?s Les Iles had touched the very core of his sensibility and provided him with both a ?terrain for reflection, and a format? that he would later use for his own essays. Their correspondence, beginning when the seventeen-year-old Camus was Grenier?s student at the Grand Lycäe of Algiers, documents the younger man?s struggle to become a writer and find his own voice, a period in which he turned frequently to his mentor for advice, comfort, and direction. The letters cover a period of almost thirty years, from 1932 to Camus?s untimely death in 1960. Because Camus destroyed the earlier correspondence he received, the first twenty-six letters in the volume are his only; the full begins in 1940. ø These enlightening letters offer invaluable glimpses into the development of Camus?s aesthetic ideas, literary production, and political stance. In contrast to the correspondence of Grenier, who throughout remains somewhat reticent about his life and doubtful about himself and his works, Camus?s letters are a window into his most profound thoughts and sensitivities, delving deeply into his psyche and, at times, revealing a side of the writer unfamiliar to us. Undoubtedly they allow us a better understanding of Albert Camus, the man and the artist.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803214979

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9780803214972

Facing the Unexpected in Flight

Human Limitations and Interaction with Technology in the Cockpit

By: Jean Pinet

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Facing the Unexpected in Flight

Human Limitations and Interaction with Technology in the Cockpit

By: Jean Pinet

Airline pilots often have to face sudden, unexpected situations that can become potentially dangerous. They are trained to deal with these situations, but sometimes the lack of time before the situation deteriorates and the associated stress can compromise their basic cognitive sequence and lead to a serious incident or even an accident. This book

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CRC Press

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1498718728

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New Music of the Nordic Countries

By: Jean Christensen

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New Music of the Nordic Countries

By: Jean Christensen

New Music of the Nordic Countries describes the music of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden composed during the latter half of the twentieth century. Along with providing biographical material on most of the living Nordic composers, the book discusses in detail the major trends in Scandinavian contemporary music as well as many of the recent musical works. The 800-page volume is edited by John D. White, a former Scholar to Iceland and a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. White is the author of Part III, New Music in Iceland and has enlisted five other distinguished Nordic musical scholars to write the remaining sections of the book. Bound together philosophically, geographically, and to a significant extent ethnically, the five Nordic countries hold a unique place in today's world. They are populated by talented, creative achievers, and each nation possesses its own special qualities. This is certainly true in its music, yet little of Nordic tone art of the late twentieth century is widely known outside of Northern Europe. Thus, this comprehensive volume will serve a valuable purpose in disseminating knowledge about this important body of music literature.

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Pendragon Press

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1576470199

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Introduction to Nanophotonics

By: Henri Benisty,Jean-Jacques Greffet,Philippe Lalanne

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Introduction to Nanophotonics

By: Henri Benisty,Jean-Jacques Greffet,Philippe Lalanne

The aim of this book is to cover the scope of Nanophotonics, a discipline that has emerged around the turn of the millennium. It results from the merge of different communities working in different aspects of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. These include near-field optics and super-resolution microscopy, photonic crystals, diffractive optics, plasmonics, optoelectronics, synthesis of metallic and semiconductor nanoparticles, two-dimensional materials and metamaterials. Our feeling when we started the project was that a book covering most of these aspects altogether was lacking. The field is so rapidly evolving that it is impossible to summarize all the recent breakthroughs. The goal of this book is to provide a self-contained discussion of the fundamentals of the different subfields involved in nanophotonics. The current project is a collaborative project between three researchers that have been actively involved in the field from different communities. Henri Benisty has a background in semiconductor physics and optoelectronics, Jean-Jacques Greffet has a background in near-field optics and light scattering, Philippe Lalanne has a background in diffractive optics and photonic crystals. All of them made significant contributions to the advancement of the field. The book material is based on lectures that have been given by them at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Palaiseau, Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne)"--

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Oxford University Press

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0198786131

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9780198786139

Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine

New technologies induce new learning strategies

By: Jean-Pierre Didier,Emmanuel Bigand

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Rethinking physical and rehabilitation medicine

New technologies induce new learning strategies

By: Jean-Pierre Didier,Emmanuel Bigand

“Re-education” consists in training people injured either by illness or the vagaries of life to achieve the best functionality now possible for them. Strangely, the subject is not taught in the normal educational curricula of the relevant professions. It thus tends to be developed anew with each patient, without recourse to knowledge of what such training, or assistance in such training, might be. New paradigms of re-education are in fact possible today, thanks to advances in cognitive science, and new technologies such as virtual reality and robotics. They lead to the re-thinking of the procedures of physical medicine, as well as of re-education. The first part looks anew at re-education in the context of both international classifications of functionality, handicap and health, and the concept of normality. The second part highlights the function of implicit memory in re-education. And the last part shows the integration of new cognition technologies in the new paradigms of re-education.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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2817800346

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9782817800349

Cinq bières, deux rhums!

By: Jean-Bernard Pouy

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Cinq bières, deux rhums!

By: Jean-Bernard Pouy

Gérard n'en peut plus de voir son pote Gabriel errer comme une âme en peine à la Sainte-Scolasse. Aussi l'envoie-t-il se dégourdir les tentacules entre Nord et Belgique, avec pour mission d'en apporter quelques bières locales... A peine arrivé, le Poulpe est confronté à deux faits divers un peu spéciaux : le cadavre d'un homme est retrouvé dans les immenses tas de ferraille de l'usine sidérurgique, tandis qu'à quelques mètres de distance, un autre corps bloque une écluse de l'Escaut. Le sang de notre héros ne fait qu'un tour, et le voilà reparti sur le sentier de la guerre contre les profiteurs de tout poil. Quinze ans après La Petite Écuyère a cafté, Jean-Bernard Pouy, créateur de la série, reprend brillamment la plume et du service. Parce que, de Juppé à Sarkozy, ça n'est pas seulement du pain que le Poulpe a sur la planche, c'est une boulangerie entière. Et 5 bières, 2 rhums, c'est bien le minimum pour le mettre en appétit et lui donner du coeur à l'ouvrage !

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Editions Baleine

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2842194608

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9782842194604

Degas

An Exhibition Held at the Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

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Degas

By: Edgar Degas,Jean Sutherland Boggs,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)

Katalog towarzyszący wystawom w: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais w Paryżu, 9 luty - 16 maj 1988; National Galery of Canada w Ottawie, 16 czerwiec - 28 sierpień 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art w Nowym Jorku, 27 wrzesień - 8 styczeń 1989.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870995197

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9780870995194

Gabriel Fauré - Catalogue des œuvres (Catalogue of works / Werkverzeichnis)

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

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Gabriel Fauré - Catalogue des œuvres (Catalogue of works / Werkverzeichnis)

By: Jean-Michel Nectoux

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) ist vor allem als Liedkomponist, durch sein Requiem, einige Kammermusikwerke oder die Pavane gegenwärtig. Die seit 2010 im Bärenreiter-Verlag erscheinenden "Œuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré" machen es sich zur Aufgabe, sein Werk in seiner ganzen Vielfalt einer neuen Rezeption zuzuführen. Als deren achter Band ist nun das Werkverzeichnis von Jean-Michel Nectoux erschienen. Das thematische Verzeichnis listet mit 201 Einträgen in chronologischer Folge alle bekannten Werke des Franzosen auf. Die Einträge führen in der neuen Zählung nach N-Nummern Informationen zu Opuszahl (nach der Zählung zu Faurés Lebzeiten), Besetzung, Tonart, Incipit, Text-Incipit und Textquelle, Quellenbeschreibungen der handschriftlichen Quellen, Datierung, Widmungsträgern, Datum der ersten Aufführung, Hinweise zu Verlagsbindungen, erschienenen Ausgaben, ggf. eigenen und fremden Bearbeitungen, Kommentare und bibliographische Hinweise. Nicht weniger als sechs Register ermöglichen eine schnelle Suche. Das Werkverzeichnis ("Catalogue Nectoux") wird sich schnell für alle, die sich mit Fauré und der Musik seiner Zeit beschäftigen, als unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk erweisen. Es ist das Konzentrat von Nectoux' Arbeit der letzten 50 Jahre, Ergebnis seiner Reisen zu allen Bibliotheken, die Manuskripte Faurés verwahren – und eine Wegmarke musikalischer Forschung in Frankreich.

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Bärenreiter-Verlag

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3761871767

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9783761871768

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