Author: Sydney NorthcotePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs, French
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Songs of Henri Duparc
Author: Sydney NorthcotePublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447492757
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This is, so far as I know, the first book in English on the life and work of Henri Duparc. But it is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of his songs rather than as a full-length biography. For that would call for the intimate knowledge of someone like his sole surviving son, M. Henri Charles Duparc; or his distinguished friend, M. P. de Breville; or, as a beginning at any rate, the translation of Dr Charles Oulmont’s Musique de l’amour. To each of these I would here like to express my deepest obligations in the preparation of the present essay. The form of the book calls for very little explanation and, I hope, no apology. It is designed to fulfil a certain logical principle in the study of song—the appreciation of the song-writer as a musician and as a man, the study of his poets as poets and, finally, the critical and interpretative analyses of the songs themselves. That is what has been attempted here.
The Songs of Henri Duparc
Author: Sydney NorthcotePublisher:
ISBN: 9780781295956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
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Henri Duparc and His Songs
Author: Willard OplingerThe Songs of Henri Duparc
Author: Carl David PerryThe Songs of Henri Duparc
Author: Donald C. BrownThe Songs of Henri Duparc and French Romanticism
Author: Geraldine Esther OstrovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romanticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Performer's Guide to the Songs of Henri Duparc
Author: Billy Andrew RobyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Examines the life and song composition of Duparc, a prominent & important influence in the development of French mélodie. "Study seeks to ... produce a guide for the preparation and performance of the songs"--P. 1.
Henri Duparc and His Mélodie
Author: Helen M. BradburnFrench Song from Berlioz to Duparc
Author: Frits NoskePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486255549
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Devoted to French art songs of the 19th century, this volume explores the melodies of Berlioz, Liszt, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, and many others. Sensitive evaluations include more than 250 musical examples.
Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets
Author: Graham JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351566113
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
The career of Gabriel Faur‘s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Faur the lifelong prot of Camille Saint-Sa was a suavely precocious student; he was part of Pauline Viardot's circle in the 1870s and he nearly married her daughter. Pointed in the direction of symbolist poetry by Robert de Montesquiou in 1886, Faur as the favoured composer from the early 1890s of Winnarretta Singer, later Princesse de Polignac, and his songs were revered by Marcel Proust. In 1905 he became director of the Paris Conservatoire, and he composed his most profound music in old age. His existence, steadily productive and outwardly imperturbable, was undermined by self-doubt, an unhappy marriage and a tragic loss of hearing. In this detailed study Graham Johnson places the vocal music within twin contexts: Faur own life story, and the parallel lives of his many poets. We encounter such giants as Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, the patrician Leconte de Lisle, the forgotten Armand Silvestre and the Belgian symbolist Charles Van Lerberghe. The chronological range of the narrative encompasses Faur first poet, Victor Hugo, who railed against Napoleon III in the 1850s, and the last, Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, killed in action in the First World War. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated study each of Faur 109 songs receives a separate commentary. Additional chapters for the student singer and serious music lover discuss interpretation and performance in both aesthetical and practical terms. Richard Stokes provides parallel English translations of the original French texts. In the twenty-first century musical modernity is evaluated differently from the way it was assessed thirty years ago. Faur‘s no longer merely a 'Master of Charms' circumscribed by the belleque. His status as a great composer of timeless