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