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Subject(s)

• Music—France—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Trezise, Simon [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]

Summary note

France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making from the early middle ages to the present day. The first part provides a complete chronological history structured around key historical events. The second part considers opera and ballet and their institutions and works, and the third part explores traditional and popular music. In the final part, contributors analyse five themes and topics, including the early church and its institutions, manuscript sources, the musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières, and music at the court during the ancien régime. Illustrated with photographs and music examples, this book will be essential reading for both students and music lovers.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Part I : Chronological history of French music from the early Middle Ages to the present. From abbey to cathedral and court : music under the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian kings in France until Louis IX / Alice V. Clark ; Cathedral and court : music under the late Capetian and Valois kings, to Louis XI / Lawrence Earp ; The Renaissance / Fabrice Fitch ; Music under Louis XIII and XIV, 1610-1715 / Peter Bennett and Georgia Cowart ; Music from the Regency to the Revolution, 1715-1789 / Debra Nagy ; The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848 / Michael McClellan and Simon Trezise ; Renaissance and change, 1848 to the death of Debussy / Simon Trezise ; La guerre et la paix, 1914-1945 / Andy Fry ; Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain : music from the Second World War / Jonathan Goldman
• Part II. Opera. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck / Jaqueline Waeber ; Opera and ballet after the Revolution / Steven Huebner
• Part III : Other musics. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study / Luc Charles-Dominique ; Popular music / David Loosely
• Part IV. Themes and topics. Manuscript sources and calligraphy / John Haines ; Church and state in the early medieval period / Andrew Tomasello ; Music and the court of the ancien régime / Jeanice Brooks ; Musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières / Georgia Cowart ; Paris and the regions from the Revolution to the First World War / Katharine Ellis.

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ISBN

• 1-316-23583-1
• 1-316-23394-4
• 0-511-84324-0

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