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Stravinsky and his world
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ISBN: 0691159874 9780691159874 0691159882 9780691159881 1299777988 178539987X 1400848547 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"Stravinsky and his world" brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century.Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label "neoclassicism" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa "Mavra", and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreaking "Poetics of Music", and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky's "Orpheus" and "Oedipus Rex" reflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents supplement "Stravinsky and his world" - spanish and mexican interviews, russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen french and russian articles - bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships.The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.


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Chopin, âme des salons parisiens : 1830-1848
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ISBN: 9782213672434 2213672431 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris: Fayard,

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Plus que tout autre cadre, c’est le salon qui a constitué pour Chopin la situation idéale d’épanouissement de son art. C’est cet univers que se propose d’éclairer Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, en évoquant le monde de Chopin au travers des salons parisiens qu’il a fréquentés (ceux de l’aristocratie, de la finance, des ambassades, des écrivains ou des artistes). L’ouvrage donne accès à une documentation nouvelle, partiellement inédite (correspondances, journaux intimes, mémoires), accompagnée de réflexions et commentaires, concernant le rôle des salons parisiens dans le développement de la carrière de Chopin et dans la réception par ses contemporains de l’image du pianiste, du compositeur et de l’improvisateur. Le recueil de documents présenté au centre de l’ouvrage transmet au lecteur un reflet du monde de Chopin, de son jeu, de sa présence, de son être. La réception de l’image du musicien, défini par des termes récurrents chez tous ses contemporains cités (poète, ange, sylphe…), est ainsi illustrée et développée, et a été résumée dans la formule de Balzac : « Ce beau génie est moins un musicien qu’une âme qui se rend sensible. »


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Orpheus in the marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the economy of late renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 067472464X 9780674724648 067472657X 9780674726574 0674727932 Year: 2013 Volume: 10 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard university press,

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The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. They also allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.

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