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Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure. Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the French navy, scientist, inventor and moral philosopher, was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same stature and celebrity as Faur Debussy and Ravel. Since his death, however, both Cras and his music have been almost completely overlooked. In this, the first critical biography of Cras, Paul-Andre Bempechat situates Henri Duparc's proteg‘s a missing link between the French post-Romantic generation of composers and the Impressionists. The book explores, both historically and analytically, the methodology by which Cras evolved his eclectic brand of Impressionism, striking the delicate balance between Celtic folk idioms and exoticisms inspired by his travels. Cras' creative legacy extends beyond the world of music to the world of science. His five patented inventions include the navigational gyrocompass, which bears his name, still in use to this day by the French navy, coast guard and boating afficionados. Bempechat draws special attention to the humanist Jean Cras and his distinguished military career - he is credited with saving the Serbian army from extinction - drawing on primary source material such as family correspondence and wartime diaries to reaffirm this composer as a true Renaissance man of the twentieth century.
"This revised, enhanced edition of the life and works of composer and Admiral Jean Cras traces, through new research, the remarkable career of this celebrated composer, decorated war hero, scientist and inventor. As Henri Duparc's only protégé, his "spiritual son" enjoyed the same level of esteem during the 1920s as his friends Ravel and Roussel. This edition sustains the renaissance of Jean Cras, and includes a new chapter devoted to the composer's early songs, to be released concurrently"--
French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the twelfth century to the present, focusing on works for solo voice or small vocal ensembles with piano or organ accompaniment, suitable for recitals, concerts, and church performances. Georgine Resick presents vocal repertoire within the context of trends and movements of other artistic disciplines, such as poetry, literature, dance, painting, and decorative arts, as well as political and social currents pertinent to musical evolution. Developments in French style and genre—and comparisons among individual composers and national styles—are traced through a network of musical influence. French Vocal Literature is ideally suited for voice teachers and coaches as well as student and professional performers. The companion website, frenchvocalliterature.com, provides publication information, a discography, links to online recordings and scores, a chronology of events pertinent to music, a genealogy of royal dynasties, and a list of governmental regimes.
Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is the legacy of political and cultural struggle during the long nineteenth century, indicating a French Revolution unresolved both then and now. In light of the capital's power as the seat of a centralizing French state (which provincials found 'colonizing') and as a cosmopolitan musical crossroads of nineteenth-century Europe, the struggles inherent in creating sustainable musical cultures outside Paris, and in composing local and regionalist music, are ripe for analysis. Replacement of 'France' with Paris has encouraged normative history-writing articulated by the capital's opera and concert life. Regional practices have been ignored, disparaged or treated piecemeal. 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 Époque. 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 mainland 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 communities, 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. Control over 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.

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George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 948


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This volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The 'Gallic Disaster': Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman; The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras, Paul Andre Bempéchat; Compert Con Culainn: Dangerous Liaisons: The Birth of the Hero and the Origins of Society, Marion Dean; Cernunnos: Looking a Different Way, David Fickett-Wilbar; Epic or Exegesis: The Form and Genesis of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, John Fisher; Introducing King Nuadha: Mythology and Politics in the Belfast Murals, Alexandra Hartnett; Gaelic Political Scripture: Uí Mhaoil Chonaire Scribes and the Book of Mac Murchadha Caomhánach, Benjamin Hazard; Voice, Power and Narrative Structure in Orgain Denna Ríg, Bettina Kimpton; Cucchulainn: God, Man or Animal?, Erik Larson; The Celtic Seasonal Festivals in the Light of Recent Approaches to the Indo-European Ritual Year, Emily Lyle; Vita I. S. Brigitae: An Eighth-Century Life with Seventh-Century Roots, Laurance Maney; Spirit and Flesh in Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry: A Comparison of the Work of D. Gwenallt Jones and Pennar Davies, D. Densil Morgan; Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards: Significance and Impact, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; Old Irish *desgabál and the Concept of Ascension in Irish Religious Texts, Brian O Broin; Oenach Aimsire na mBan: Early Irish Seasonal Celebrations, Gender Roles and Mythological Cycles, Sharon Paice Macleod; Literature Reviews in An Claidheamh Soluis: A journalistic insight to Irish Literary Reviews in the Revival period 1899-1932, Regina Uí Chollatáin; and Insular and Celtic Influences on the Decoration of Yale MS 22, Elizabeth Willingham.
Matters of authenticity. Chopin's Polish rhapsody / Ferdinand Gajewski -- Matters folkloric. L'emprunt, facteur de renouvellement musical dans les pays celtiques / Yves Defrance ; Gibbons in the Budapest Zoo : reflections on Hungarian folksong / Virginia James Kidd ; Folklore and reminiscence in Claude Debussy / Virginia Raad -- Matters instrumental. Frédéric Triebert (1813-1878), designer of the modern oboe : newly found archival documents featuring the inventory and auction of his musical instrument enterprise / Tula Giannini ; Marking the accord of instrument and style, 1709-1768 / Sally C. Park -- Matters naval. Jean Cras, the scientist : an explication of his navigational ruler ; Compass, la règle-rapporteur cras / Allan P. Archer -- Matters novel. Album-leaf : for piano 109 / John Davison -- Matters operatic. Naturaliste et dreyfusard : Alfred Bruneau, compositeur engagé / Jean-Max Guieu -- Deconstructive melodrama in the Hamlet of Ambroise Thomas / John Harrison ; Judith Gautier et les traductions de Parsifal / Danièle Pistone ; Gawain in opera 159 / Jerome V. Reel -- Matters operettic. The border territory between classical and broadway : a voyage ; Around and about Four saints in three acts and West Side story / Ralph P. Locke ; Manuel de Falla's early works for the theater / Elizabeth Seitz -- Matters of perception. Point-counter-point : Schoenberg meets Bach / John Daverio ; The problems of musical hermeneutics / Edward Lippman -- Matters of reception. From Haus to Konzerthaus : orchestrations of Schubert's : Erlkönig and other liede.