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Salons, Singers and Songs - A Background to Romantic French Song 1830-1870 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,707
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Salons, Singers and Songs - A Background to Romantic French Song 1830-1870 (Paperback): David Tunley

Salons, Singers and Songs - A Background to Romantic French Song 1830-1870 (Paperback)

David Tunley

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Music! It is the great pleasure of this city, the great occupation of the drawing-rooms, which have banished politics, and which have renounced literature, from ennui. Jules Janin, An American in Paris, 1843 Afternoon and evening entertainments in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy and upper middle classes were a staple of cultural life in nineteenth-century Paris. Music was often a feature of these occasions and private salons provided important opportunities for musicians, especially singers, to develop their careers. Such recitals included excerpts from favourite operas, but also the more traditional forms of French song, the romance and its successor the melodie. Drawing on extensive research into the musical press of the period, David Tunley paints a vivid portrait of the nineteenth-century Parisien salons and the performers who sang in them. Against this colourful backdrop, he discusses the development of French romantic song, with its hallmarks of simplicity and clarity of diction. Combined with Italian influences and the impression made by Schubert's songs, the French romance developed into a form with greater complexity - the melodie. Salons, Singers and Songs describes this transformation and the seeds it sowed for music by later composers such as Faure, Duparc and Debussy.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2016
First published: 2002
Authors: David Tunley
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-25271-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
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LSN: 1-138-25271-9
Barcode: 9781138252714

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