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Voice lessons : French mélodie in the belle epoque
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bergeron, Katherine, Author.
- Series:
- New cultural history of music.
- The new cultural history of music Voice lessons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs--History and criticism--19th century--France.
- Songs.
- Songs--History and criticism--20th century--France.
- Singing--History--19th century--France.
- Singing.
- Singing--History--20th Century--France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 400 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The sounds of the French language, the history of French education, the cultural politics of the Third Republic, and the performance of French verse come surprisingly together in Katherine Bergeron's book which is a study of the modern vocal art known as la mélodie française.
- Contents:
- Eve sings, an origin story
- The mother tongue
- Free speech, free verse, and "music before all things"
- L'art de dire, or Language in performance
- Farewell to an idea.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780199714179
- 0199714177
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31468 hdl
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