Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. INDICE: List of Figures; List of Musical Examples; Foreword: Telling History; 1.; Eve Sings, An Origin Story; Melody; Eve Sings; Muteness; Oral Pleasures; Melos and Mimesis; Mortal Melody; Perfect prosody, androgynous melody; Selfless Singers; NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE; The Mother Tongue Teaching the modern ABCs; The People's Mouth L Figures of Speech Talking Machines Indelible Accents; NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO ; Free Speech, Free Verse, and Music Before All Things;Poetry and the People Vibrations of Language Accentus/ ad cantus Music After All Transcribing the voix parlée Unsung symbols; NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE 4. L'Art de dire, or Language in Performance Venetian glass and marqueterie ; Vibrant noise, expressive elegance Dir(e) Expressions lyriques ; Forget that you aresingers A Bird in a branch; NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR; 5. Farewell to an Idea; Lavérité; Natural history; Une voix du passé?; Realism revisited; In the shadowof the Faun; Mirages; NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533705-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 420
- Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés