The Fauré song cycles : poetry and music, 1861-1921 / Stephen Rumph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rumph, Stephen C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Songs.

Fauré, Gabriel.

Song cycles--20th century--History and criticism.

Song cycles.

Music and literature--France--History--20th century.

Music and literature.

Song cycles--19th century--History and criticism.

Music and literature--France--History--19th century.

Songs--19th century--Analysis, appreciation.

Songs.

Songs--20th century--Analysis, appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Gabriel Fauré’s mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Fauré’s musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Fauré’s musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of music examples

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Romancing the mélodie: a Hugo cycle?

2. Ascending Parnassus: Poème d’un jour, op. 21

3. The Discovery of music: Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” op. 58

4. Wagnerian correspondances: La bonne chanson, op. 61

5. Theatrical Song: La chanson d’Ève, op. 95

6. Writing in the sand: Le jardin clos, op. 106

7. Neoclassical voyages: Mirages, op. 113 and L’horizon chimérique, op. 118

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520969902

0520969901

OCLC:

1142886440