{"product_id":"the-faure-song-cycles-poetry-and-music-18611921-9780520297623","title":"The Faure Song Cycles Poetry and Music 18611921","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel Fauré's mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that havemade 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Music Examples\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Romancing the \u003ci\u003emélodie \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Hugo Cycle?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ascending Parnassus \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoème d’un jour\u003c\/i\u003e, op. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Discovery of Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinq mélodies \"de Venise,\"\u003c\/i\u003e op. 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wagnerian correspondances\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa bonne chanson\u003c\/i\u003e, op. 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Theatrical Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa chanson d’Ève\u003c\/i\u003e, op. 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing in the Sand\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe jardin clos\u003c\/i\u003e, op. 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Neoclassical Voyages\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMirages\u003c\/i\u003e, op. 113 and \u003ci\u003eL’horizon chimériqu\u003c\/i\u003ee, op. 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402900676951,"sku":"9780520297623","price":50.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520297623.jpg?v=1730481811","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-faure-song-cycles-poetry-and-music-18611921-9780520297623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}