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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

By: Jeanice Brooks

In the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution. Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture. The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.

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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

Performing Past and Future Between the Wars

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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

Performing Past and Future Between the Wars

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A fresh look at the career of Nadia Boulanger, among the most influential musical figures of the entire twentieth century.

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

By: Jeanice Brooks

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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

Performing Past and Future between the Wars

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Performing Past and Future between the Wars

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Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and new compositions. This book considers how gender shaped the possibilities that marked Boulanger's performing career, tracing her meteoric rise as a conductor in the 1930s to origins in the classroom and the salon. Brooks investigates Boulanger's promotion of structurally motivated performance styles, showing how her ideas on performance of historical repertory and new music relate to her teaching of music analysis and music history. The book explores the way in which Boulanger's musical practice relied upon her understanding of the historically transcendent masterwork, in which musical form and meaning are ideally joined, and shows how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.

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Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France

The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger

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