Modern French Music from Faure to Boulez
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1971]. Hardcover. ix, 210 pages. Hardcover, in fine condition, bound in dark blue cloth, in a very good light blue jacket with three short closed tears along its top edge, each an inch or shorter in length. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #618
An examination of French music from around 1900 up to the publication date, organized in four parts: social and cultural influences on twentieth-century composers; the period from Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande up to World War I, with social stability juxtaposed against challenges to the artistic establishment in music, painting and literature; the neoclassical movement, the impact of Dada and surrealism, and the influence of the modern Viennese school; and the birth of musique concrete, the emergence of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez as leaders of the French avant-garde, and the beginning of a new era in which a traditional idea of composition gradually gave way to sound manipulation and greater experimentation.
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