Voice Lessons
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533705-1 (ISBN)
Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la mélodie française and its rise to prominence in the years around 1900-a period when France was pouring resources into national literacy and French scholars were beginning to grasp the nuances of the spoken tongue. Bergeron explores the relationship between the free, secular, and compulsory school system of the Third Republic, and the experimental sciences of language that grew alongside it, to observe the ways in which both science and school redefined the verbal arts in France at century's end.
The music of Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel; the writings of Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine; the performances of Maggie Teyte, Reynaldo Hahn, and Sarah Bernhardt; the linguistic studies of Paul Passy and Abbé Rousselot: all these sources offer evidence of the new ideas of expression that proliferated during one of the most idealistic moments in French musical history, when poets, composers, actors, singers, and scientists all learned to imagine-and to speak-their language in new ways. Through close readings of songs, poems, sound recordings, and other historical records, Voice Lessons narrates the development of a rare musical art, seeking to explain why this art emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared.
Katherine Bergeron is Professor and Dean, College of Music, Brown University
List of Figures ; List of Musical Examples ; Foreword: Telling History ; 1. ; Eve Sings, An Origin Story ; Melody ; Eve Sings ; Muteness ; Oral Pleasures ; Melos and Mimesis ; Mortal Melody ; Perfect prosody, androgynous melody ; Selfless Singers ; NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE ; The Mother Tongue Teaching the modern ABCs ; The People's Mouth L Figures of Speech Talking Machines Indelible Accents ; NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO ; Free Speech, Free Verse, and Music Before All Things ; Poetry and the People Vibrations of Language Accentus/ ad cantus Music After All Transcribing the voix parlee Unsung symbols ; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE 4. L'Art de dire, or Language in Performance Venetian glass and marqueterie ; Vibrant noise, expressive elegance Dir(e) Expressions lyriques ; Forget that you are singers A Bird in a branch ; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR ; 5. Farewell to an Idea ; La verite ; Natural history ; Une voix du passe? ; Realism revisited ; In the shadow of the Faun ; Mirages ; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE ; Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2010 |
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| Reihe/Serie | New Cultural History of Music |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 black and white halftones, 96 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 726 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-533705-0 / 0195337050 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-533705-1 / 9780195337051 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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