| Series |
Eastman studies in music ; 5
Eastman studies in music ; 5. ^A494093
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| Contents |
From the Revolution to Franck. Evolutionary schemes: organists and their revolutionary music / Kimberly Marshall and William J. Peterson -- Organ music in the mass of the Parisian Rite to 1850 with emphasis on the contributions of Boëly / Benjamin Van Wye -- Boëly's Quatorze Préludes sur des cantiques de Denizot, op. 15, and the creation of a French "Christmas" Orgelbüchlein / Craig Cramer -- Lemmens, his École d'orgue, and nineteenth-century organ methods / William J. Peterson -- Franck: the texts. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 8707: a new source for Franck's registrational practices and its implications for the published registrations of his organ works / Jesse E. Eschbach -- From manuscript to publication: Franck's Choral No. 1 / Karen Hastings-Deans -- Franck: issues in performance. The organ works of Franck: a survey of editorial and performance problems / Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais -- Some thoughts on the interpretation of the organ works of Franck, on his organ, and on the Lemmens tradition / Daniel Roth -- Widor and his contemporaries. "Why should we not do the same with our Catholic melodies?": Guilmant's L'Organiste liturgiste, op. 65 / Edward Zimmerman and Lawrence Archbold -- Widor's Symphonie romane / Lawrence Archbold -- The organ of the Trocadéro and its players / Rollin Smith. |
| Abstract |
In Europe and America alike, nineteenth-century French organ music continues to attract performers and devotees. Scholars and critics are examining, often in innovative ways and with reference to previously uptapped sources, the organ music of Cesar Franck and other distinguished composers--Boely, Guilmant, Widor--and are exploring the impact upon this repertoire of the organ-building achievements of Aristide Cavaille-Coll. This volume contains contributions by many of the most prominent scholars and performer-scholars currently dealing with this fascinating repertoire, including the noted French organists Daniel Roth and Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais. The essays examine selected parts of this varied repertoire through stylistic analysis, the study of compositional process, and the exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified. New consideration is also given to the political and cultural contexts within which French organist-composers worked. This volume of scholarly and readable essays, nearly all of them previously unpublished or unavailable in English translation, provides convincing evidence that the field of nineteenth-century French organ music has now emerged as an important arena of musical and cultural studies. |
| Local note | Little-306525--305131011941T |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95021601 |
| ISBN | 1878822551 (hb : alk. free) |
