The Faure Song Cycles. Stephen Rumph

The Faure Song Cycles - Stephen Rumph


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The Fauré Song Cycles

      The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Roth Family Foundation Imprint in Music, established by a major gift from Sukey and Gil Garcetti and Michael P. Roth.

      Also, support for this publication was generously provided by the Publications Endowment of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

      The Fauré Song Cycles

      Poetry and Music, 1861–1921

      Stephen Rumph

      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

      University of California Press

      Oakland, California

      © 2020 by Stephen Rumph

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Rumph, Stephen C., author.

      Title: The Fauré song cycles : poetry and music, 1861–1921 / Stephen Rumph.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020004308 (print) | LCCN 2020004309 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520297623 (cloth) | ISBN 9780520969902 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Fauré, Gabriel, 1845–1924. Songs. | Song cycles—19th century—History and criticism. | Song cycles—20th century—History and criticism. | Songs—19th century—Analysis, appreciation. | Songs—20th century—Analysis, appreciation. | Music and literature—France—History—19th century. | Music and literature—France—History—20th century.

      Classification: LCC ML410.F27 R86 2020 (print) | LCC ML410.F27 (ebook) | DDC 782.4/7092—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004308

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004309

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      For Joseph Kerman, in memoriam

      CONTENTS

       List of Music Examples

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

      1. Romancing the mélodie

       A Hugo Cycle?

      2. Ascending Parnassus

       Poème d’un jour, op. 21

      3. The Discovery of Music

       Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” op. 58

      4. Wagnerian correspondances

       La bonne chanson, op. 61

      5. Theatrical Song

       La chanson d’Ève, op. 95

      6. Writing in the Sand

       Le jardin clos, op. 106

      7. Neoclassical Voyages

       Mirages, op. 113 and L’horizon chimérique, op. 118

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

      Example 1.1. Common pentatonic motive in Fauré’s settings from Hugo, Les chants du crépuscule.

      Example 1.2. Fauré, “Le papillon et la fleur,” mm. 1–25.

      Example 1.3. Fauré, “Puisque j’ai mis ma lèvre,” mm. 1–40.

      Example 1.4. Fauré, variation of a head motive across the first strophe of “Mai.”

      Example 1.5. Fauré, “S’il est un charmant gazon,” mm. 1–24.

      Example 1.6. Fauré, “S’il est un charmant gazon,” mm. 57–68.

      Example 2.1. Fauré, “Lydia,” mm. 1–19.

      Example 2.2. Tonal ambivalence in Fauré, “Rencontre,” Poème d’un jour, op. 21, mm. 1–21.

      Example 2.3. Modulation by Weitzmann regions in Fauré, “Toujours,” mm. 11–25.

      Example 2.4. Weitzmann region in Fauré, Introït, Requiem, op. 48, mm. 50–61. Derived from Cohn, Audacious Euphony, 55.

      Example 2.5. Fauré, “Adieu,” Poème d’un jour, mm. 1–12.

      Example 2.6. Hypothetical half cadence in Fauré, “Adieu,” Poème d’un jour, m. 8.

      Example 2.7. Fauré, “Adieu,” Poème d’un jour, mm. 28–34.

      Example 3.1. Minuet modules in Fauré, “Clair de lune.”

      Example 3.2. Transformation of a prosodic rhythm in Fauré, “Mandoline,” Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” op. 58.

      Example 3.3. Fauré’s “Venice” motive in the Cinq mélodies “de Venise.”

      Example 3.4. Fauré, “En sourdine,” Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” mm. 1–16.

      Example 3.5. Fauré, “À Clymène,” Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” mm. 1–13.

      Example 3.6. Fauré, “À Clymène,” Cinq mélodies “de Venise,” mm. 48–57.

      Example 3.7. Intertextuality in Fauré, Cinq mélodies “de Venise.”

      Example 4.1. Leitmotives in Fauré, La bonne chanson, op. 61.

      Example 4.2. Octave family of leitmotives in Fauré, La bonne chanson.

      Example 4.3. Appoggiatura family of leitmotives in Fauré, La bonne chanson.

      Example 4.4. Lydia family of leitmotives in Fauré, La bonne chanson.

      Example 4.5. Fauré, “Une Sainte en son auréole,” La bonne chanson, mm. 22–27.

      Example 4.6. Pentatonic leitmotives in Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen.

      Example


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