The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
Performing Past and Future Between the Wars
By Jeanice Brooks | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
About the book
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 shows how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.
Editions of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107009141
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781316616383
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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 shows how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.
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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 shows how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.
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The Arts > Music > Music: styles and genres > Art music, orchestral and formal music
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Jeanice Brooks
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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107009141) and paperback(ISBN 9781316616383)