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French musical life : local dynamics in the century to World War II / Katharine Ellis.
LIBRA ML270 .E55 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Katharine, author.
- Series:
- AMS studies in music
- AMS studies in music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--France--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Instruction and study.
- History.
- Music--Political aspects.
- France.
- Music--France--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music--Political aspects--France--History--19th century.
- Music--Political aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Music--Instruction and study--France--History--19th century.
- Music--Instruction and study--France--History--20th century.
- Regionalism in music.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 417 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book is a study of French musical centralization and its discontents during the period leading up to and beyond the "provincial awakening" of the Belle �Epoque. The book explains how different kinds of artistic decentralization and regionalism were hard won (or not) across a politically turbulent century from the 1830s to World War II. In doing so it redraws the historical map of musical power relations in France. Based on work in over 70 archives, chapters on conservatoires, concert life, stage music, folk music and composition reveal how tensions of State and locality played out differently depending on the structures and funding mechanisms in place, the musical priorities of different town councils, and the presence or absence of galvanizing musicians. Progressively, the book shifts from musical contexts to musical content, exploring the pressure point of folk music and its translation into "local color" for officials who perpetually feared national division. Controlling composition on the one hand, and the emotional intensity of folk-based musical experience on the other, emerges as a matter of consistent official praxis. In terms of "French music" and its compositional styles, what results is a surprising new historiography of French neoclassicism, bound into and growing out of a study of diversity and its limits in daily musical life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Centralization and Its Discontents
- Decentralization, Deconcentration, Regionalism
- Politics, Then and Now
- A Study in Four Parts
- Approaches
- pt. I EDUCATION
- Introduction
- 1. The National Conservatoire System
- Class and Access: Working-Class Men
- Class and Status: Young Bourgeoises
- Power, Hard and Soft
- Directorial Discretion: Curricula
- The 1930s: Toward Reform
- 2. Educational Independence
- Pedagogical Difference c.1900
- The Schola's Ghostly Presences I: Montpellier
- The Schola's Ghostly Presences II: Severac's Vision, Le Havre and Nancy
- Strasbourg
- Bordeaux
- Composition: The Final Frontier
- pt. II CONCERT RITES
- 3. Choral Voices
- Orphions: Uniformity and Regional Identity
- Cathedral makrises
- Mixed Choirs: Poitou-Charentes and Strasbourg
- Belle Epoque Ambition: Bordes, Witkowski, and Lyon
- 4. Instrumental Music and Urban Gravitas
- Private, Public, "Populaire"
- The Symphony Orchestra as Musical Hub
- Amateur to Professional
- Provincial Programming: Orchestral, Chamber, and Specialist Ensembles
- Local vs. (International
- pt. III STAGE MUSIC
- 5. Opera against the Odds
- The 1864 liberte des theatres
- Municipal Perspectives
- Industry Perspectives
- 6. Operatic Competition
- The Cafe-Concert
- Operetta
- Touring: Individual and Collective
- Technology
- 7. Opera Inside and Out
- Wagner's "Tour de France"
- Couleur locale in Paris and at Home
- Open-Air Opera
- pt. IV FOLK, REGION, NATION
- 8. Folk Music, Class, and Nation
- The French Folk-Music Problem
- Politics of Collection, Transcription, and Classification
- Soundscapes of Popular Catholicism
- Folk Music, the Peasant, and the Bourgeoisie
- Display, Domestication, Tourism
- Coda
- 9. Composition
- AView from 1937
- Provincial Career Paths
- Rethinking the Schola's Regionalism
- The Allure of the Russian Five
- Back to Opera: Regionalism and Nation
- Mode, Multiregionalism, and Patrimoine
- Conclusions
- "Decentralization" through the Lens of Lyon
- Musical Localism
- Repositioning the Rural.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ellis, Katharine. French musical life
- ISBN:
- 9780197600160
- 0197600166
- OCLC:
- 1247832397
- Publisher Number:
- 99989346075
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