French Vocal Literature

Repertoire in Context

Georgine Resick

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9798216255284
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Musical Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Prologue French Prosody
• 1 French Poetry and the Development of Vocal Forms (Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries)
• •2 The Turbulent Century and the air de cour (1576–1661) Pierre Guédron, Gabriel Bataille, Antoine Boësset, Etienne Moulinié
• 3 The Grand Siècle: Louis XIV and the Birth of French Opera (1661–1715) Sébastien Le Camus, Michel Lambert, Bertrand de Bacilly, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
• 4 Life after Lully (1697–1750) André Campra, François Couperin, Michel-Richard de LaLande, Jean-Joseph Cassanéade Mondonville, Nicolas Bernier, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Entr’acte: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Empire (1750–1815) Jean-Paul Martini, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, François-Joseph Gossec, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, Jean-François Le Sueur, Luigi Cherubini
• 5 Romance to Mélodie: The Advent of Romanticism in France (1815–1848) Jean-Paul Martini, Adrien Boieldieu, PaulineDuchambge, Loïsa Puget, Hippolyte Monpou, Félicien David, Henri Romagnesi, Pauline Viardot, Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Louis Niedermeyer, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner
• 6 Middle-Class Mélodie (1848–1870) Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, Jules Massenet
• 7 The Mélodie as Chamber Musi (1870–1880) Camille Saint-Saëns, Édouard Lalo, Gabriel Fauré
• 8 Wagnerites and Acolytes (1880s–1890s) César Franck, Ernest Chausson, Henri Duparc, Vincent d’Indy
• 9 The Belle Époque I (1885–1894) Emmanuel Chabrier, Erik Satie, Reynaldo Hahn
• 10 Harmonic and Prosodic Rebels: The “Impressionists” (The Belle Époque II: 1894–1906) Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel
• 11 “True France” and the March to War (The Belle Époque III: 1906–1914) Late Gabriel Fauré, Nadia Boulanger, Charles Koechlin, André Caplet, Albert Roussel, Jacques Ibert
• 12 Les Années folles: Cocteau, Satie, and Les Six (1918–1930) Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc
• 13 The Mystical Mélodie and Neoromanticism (1914–1945) Lili Boulanger, Jean Cras, Olivier Messiaen, André Jolivet, Late Francis Poulenc
• 14 Into the Twenty-First Century: Connecting the Irreconcilable (1945–Present) Edgard Varèse, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué, Betsy Jolas, Paul Méfano, Iannis Xenakis, Maurice Ohana, Henri Dutilleux, Georges Aperghis, Pascal Dusapin, Philippe Leroux, Michel Decoust, Isabelle Aboulker
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author