Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture, 1860–1960 (Hardcover)

Introduction: revisiting French musical history (Deborah Mawer) PART I French music and culture, 1860?1930 1 Patrimoine in French music: layers and crosscurrents from the Romantics to the 1920s (Katharine Ellis) 2 ‘Le Paradis deux fois perdu’: Debussy, Watteau and the fete galante (Richard Langham Smith) 3 Saint-Saens, d’Indy and the Rameau OEuvres completes: new light on the Zoroastre editorial project (1914) (Graham Sadler) 4 Adventures in gastromusicology: Satie, La Sirene and Trois petites pieces montees (1919) (Caroline Potter) 5 Le Tombeau de Ronsard in La Revue musicale (1924): memory and historical interplay (Helen Julia Minors) PART II French music and culture, 1930?1960 6 Beyond neoclassicism: symphonic form, catharsis and political commentary in Barraine’s Deuxieme symphonie (1938) (Laura Hamer) 7 Tristan und Isolde in occupied Paris, 1941: a convenient solution to France’s Wagner problem? (Rachel Orzech) 8 Historical French music in French feature films of the Occupation years (Isabel De Berrie) 9 Jolivet’s Rameau: theory, practice and temporal interplay (Deborah Mawer) 10 Jolivet’s Beethoven: supplementarity, topicality and alterity (Jun Zubillaga-Pow) 11 Commission and omission: the canon according to Messiaen (Christopher Dingle)