TY - BOOK ID - 30154699 TI - The musical work of Nadia Boulanger PY - 2013 SN - 9781107009141 9780511920646 9781316616383 1107009146 9781107336414 1107336414 0511920644 9781107334755 1107334756 9781107333093 1107333091 9781299773042 1299773044 1107234514 9781107234512 1107326656 9781107326651 1107332389 9781107332386 1107335582 9781107335585 131661638X PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Music teachers KW - Conductors (Music) KW - Boulanger, Nadia. KW - Music KW - History and criticism KW - Conductors KW - Music educators KW - Music pedagogues KW - Teachers KW - Boulanger, Nadia KW - Music conductors KW - Music directors KW - Musicians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30154699 AB - Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and new compositions. This book considers how gender shaped the possibilities that marked Boulanger's performing career, tracing her meteoric rise as a conductor in the 1930s to origins in the classroom and the salon. Brooks investigates Boulanger's promotion of structurally motivated performance styles, showing how her ideas on performance of historical repertory and new music relate to her teaching of music analysis and music history. The book explores the way in which Boulanger's musical practice relied upon her understanding of the historically transcendent masterwork, in which musical form and meaning are ideally joined, and show how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture. ER -