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Voice Lessons by Katherine Bergeron, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Katherine Bergeron

Current price: $39.95
Voice Lessons by Katherine Bergeron, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Voice Lessons by Katherine Bergeron, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Voice Lessons by Katherine Bergeron, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Katherine Bergeron

Current price: $39.95
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Size: 33 x 236 x 1

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Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la melodie francaise and its rise to prominence in the years around 1900 - a period when France waspouring resources into national literacy and French scholars were beginning to grasp the nuances of the spoken tongue. Bergeron explores the relationship between the free, secular, and compulsory school system of the Third Republic, and the experimental sciences of language that grew alongside it, to observe the ways in which both science and school redefined the verbal arts in France at century's end. The music of Faure, Debussy, and Ravel; the writings of Mallarme, Rimbaud, and Verlaine; the performances of Maggie Teyte, Reynaldo Hahn, and Sarah Bernhardt; the linguistic studies of Paul Passy and Abbe Rousselot: all these sources offer evidence of the new ideas of expression that proliferatedduring one of the most idealistic moments in French musical history, when poets, composers, actors, singers, and scientists all learned to imagine - and to speak - their language in new ways. Through close readings of songs, poems, sound recordings, and other historical records, Voice Lessonsnarrates the development of a rare musical art, seeking to explain why this art emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. | Voice Lessons by Katherine Bergeron, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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