The Cambridge Companion to French Music (Paperback)

Foreword Simon Trezise; Part I. Chronological History of French Music from the Early Middle Ages to the Present: 1. From abbey to cathedral and court: music under the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Capetian kings in France, through Louis IX Alice V. Clark; 2. Cathedral and court: music under the late Capetian and Valois kings in France, to Louis XI Lawrence Earp; 3. The Renaissance Fabrice Fitch; 4. Music under Louis XIII and XIV (1610-1715) Peter Bennett and Georgia J. Cowart; 5. Music from the Regency to the Revolution (1715-89) Debra Nagy; 6. The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848 Michael McClellan and Simon Trezise; 7. Renaissance and change: 1848 to 1914 Simon Trezise; 8. La guerre et la paix: 1914-45 Andy Fry; 9. Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain: music in France from the Second World War Jonathan Goldman; Part II. Opera: 10. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck Jacqueline Waeber; 11. Opera and ballet after the Revolution Steven Huebner; Part III. Other Musics: 12. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study in France Luc Charles-Dominique; 13. Popular music David Loosely; Part IV. Themes and Topics: 14. Manuscript sources and calligraphy John Haines; 15. Church and state in early medieval France Andrew Tomasello; 16. Music and the court of the ancien regime Jeanice Brooks; 17. Musical aesthetics of the Siecle des Lumieres Georgia J. Cowart; 18. Paris and the regions from the Revolution to World War I Katharine Ellis.