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WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
The first extended study of seven beloved French symphonic masterpieces, from Saint-Saëns and Franck to d'Indy and Dukas.
In this first full-length study of the symphony in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, Andrew Deruchie provides extended critical discussion of seven of the most influential and frequently performed works of the era, by Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Édouard Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, and Paul Dukas. The volume explores how these symphonists modernized the art form yet preserved many of the formal and rhetorical conventions of the canon, reconciling, in particular, Beethoven's symphonic legacy with the musical culture, intellectual environment, and political milieu of fin-de-siècle France. Drawing on contemporary criticism, music histories, composers' prose, and unpublished sketches, Deruchie's readings offer fresh insights on issues of musical form and technique, and also move beyond the notes to consider questions of meaning.
Andrew Deruchie is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Otago (New Zealand).
The first extended study of seven beloved French symphonic masterpieces, from Saint-Saëns and Franck to d'Indy and Dukas.
In this first full-length study of the symphony in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, Andrew Deruchie provides extended critical discussion of seven of the most influential and frequently performed works of the era, by Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Édouard Lalo, Vincent d'Indy, and Paul Dukas. The volume explores how these symphonists modernized the art form yet preserved many of the formal and rhetorical conventions of the canon, reconciling, in particular, Beethoven's symphonic legacy with the musical culture, intellectual environment, and political milieu of fin-de-siècle France. Drawing on contemporary criticism, music histories, composers' prose, and unpublished sketches, Deruchie's readings offer fresh insights on issues of musical form and technique, and also move beyond the notes to consider questions of meaning.
Andrew Deruchie is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Otago (New Zealand).
Price: $130.00
Pages: 310
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
30 September 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781580463829
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / History & Criticism, History of music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Music reviews and criticism, Art music, orchestral and formal music
Immensely valuable: rich in insights, meticulously presented, Deruchie's book shows. . . each work to be as cunningly crafted and tightly unified as the Germanic works to whose standards they have always been held and usually found wanting.
Introduction
Camille Saint-Saëns, Third Symphony
César Franck, Symphony in D Minor
Édouard Lalo, Symphony in G Minor
Ernest Chausson, Symphony in B-flat Major
Vincent d'Indy, Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
Vincent d'Indy, Second Symphony
Paul Dukas, Symphony in C
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Camille Saint-Saëns, Third Symphony
César Franck, Symphony in D Minor
Édouard Lalo, Symphony in G Minor
Ernest Chausson, Symphony in B-flat Major
Vincent d'Indy, Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
Vincent d'Indy, Second Symphony
Paul Dukas, Symphony in C
Notes
Bibliography
Index