Nadia Boulanger

Author : Jeanice Brooks,Kimberly Francis,Kimberly A. Francis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469678

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Nadia Boulanger by Jeanice Brooks,Kimberly Francis,Kimberly A. Francis Pdf

The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact. The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as composer, keyboard performer, conductor, impresario, and pedagogue. Her extensive musical networks included figures such as Fauré, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, and her advocacy helped establish the compositions of her sister Lili Boulanger. Few today realize, though, that Boulanger wrote numerous essays and reviews at various times in her career. These offer unparalleled insight into her thinking and illuminate aspects of musical culture in Europe and America from the rare point of view of an internationally prominent female artist. Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music provides a translation and critical edition of selected writings chosen for their quality and interest. The previously published articles and essays have never been reissued since their original appearance; the remaining materials are presented to readers here for the first time. The volume renders all these materials widely available, providing an important new resource for teaching and scholarship on twentieth-century music as well as an engaging collection of musical essays for the general reader.

Author : Bruno Monsaingeon,Nadia Boulanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music teachers
ISBN : UOM:39015012416569

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Mademoiselle by Bruno Monsaingeon,Nadia Boulanger Pdf

"Collected interviews and excerpts from her writings document the life, family, and work of the often controversial music teacher who instructed such diverse talents as Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Virgil Thomson, and Quincy Jones" -- Amazon.com

Author : Caroline Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317090793

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Nadia and Lili Boulanger by Caroline Potter Pdf

Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were closely linked during Lili Boulanger's short life (1893-1918) and there are several intriguing connections between their musical works. This biography also provides the first full analysis of the Boulanger sisters' musical styles, placing them within the context of French musical history. Their lives are also a case study in the issues of gender which surround music making even to the present day. Despite an unusually privileged upbringing, Nadia and Lili Boulanger exemplify the struggle women experienced when attempting to enter the professional music world. Lili became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome in 1913, and Nadia gained second place in 1908. Yet in spite of this initial success, Nadia Boulanger was to give up composing in her thirties and devoted the remainder of her long life to teaching. Her pupils included several of the great composers of the century, including Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter. This book, focusing on their musical careers, is essential reading for anyone interested in French music of the twentieth century.

Author : Kimberly A. Francis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199373697

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Teaching Stravinsky by Kimberly A. Francis Pdf

It was her love of music - especially Stravinsky's music - that drew them together. This book tells the story of the ever-changing nature of Boulanger and Stravinsky's relationship from Boulanger's perspective, tracing their interactions from 1931 to 1971. Throughout, it asks how Boulanger's professional activity during the turbulent twentieth century intersected with her efforts on behalf of Stravinsky and how this facilitated her own influential conversations with the composer about his works while also drawing her into close contact with his family.

Author : Jérôme Spycket
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music teachers
ISBN : 0945193386

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Nadia Boulanger by Jérôme Spycket Pdf

Although she was a performer, a composer, and a conductor of some of the world's great orchestras, it was through her genius as a pedagogue that Nadia Boulanger won renown. Venerated, feared, or opposed, she was as famous as the most prestigious performers, or the best-known conductors. And for the first three-quarters of this century, a host of musicians, young and old, crowded around Boulanger's piano where, with rigor and passion, she revealed a musical universe previously unknown to them. Jerome Spycket's biographical work (originally published in French by Editions Payot, Lausanne, on the centenary of Boulanger's birth) explores the eminent teacher's life through certain key events and through those that formed her circle (Faure, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, to name but a few). A wealth of photographs provides a striking visual history, from the salon of the rue Ballu, to l'Ecole de Fountainebleau, to Boulanger conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London. The spirit of this remarkable musical force shines through on every page. The wide scope of Jerome Spycket's interests, activities, and tastes infuse his writing with a spirited vitality. He brings to his subjects an independence and a search for truth, providing a genuinely analytical approach to the material. His first biography, Clara Haskil, won an Academie Francaise award and has been translated into several languages. Awarded a prize for literature by the Academie des Beaux-Arts was the original French edition of this work on Boulanger.

Author : Nadia Boulanger,Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465960

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Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys by Nadia Boulanger,Igor Stravinsky Pdf

Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226750859

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Nadia Boulanger and Her World by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers— especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass—studying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a formative moment in a creative career. Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, and charismatic and inspirational teacher, Boulanger engaged in a vast array of activities in a variety of media, from private composition lessons and lecture-recitals to radio broadcasts, recordings, and public performances. But how to define and account for Boulanger’s impact on the music world is still unclear. Nadia Boulanger and Her World takes us from a time in the late nineteenth century, when many careers in music were almost entirely closed to women, to the moment in the late twentieth century when those careers were becoming a reality. Contributors consider Boulanger’s work in the worlds of composition, musical analysis, and pedagogy and explore the geographies of transatlantic and international exchange and disruption within which her career unfolded. Ultimately, this volume takes its title as a topic for exploration—asking what worlds Boulanger belonged to, and in what sense we can consider any of them to be “hers.”

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107009141

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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

A fresh look at the career of Nadia Boulanger, among the most influential musical figures of the entire twentieth century.

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107328310

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The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

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 show how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.

Author : Léonie Rosenstiel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music teachers
ISBN : 0393317137

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Nadia Boulanger by Léonie Rosenstiel Pdf

With a life that spanned nearly a century, at her death Nadia Boulanger was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously influential, she taught many distinguished performers and composers and helped American music gain worldwide recognition. This first full biography of Boulanger is a rich portrait of an important woman of our time. Photos.

Author : Don G. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042591839

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Master Teacher, Nadia Boulanger by Don G. Campbell Pdf

Author : Alan Kendall
Publisher : London : Macdonald and Jane's
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music teachers
ISBN : UOM:49015000711128

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The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger by Alan Kendall Pdf

Author : Philip Glass
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571323739

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Words Without Music by Philip Glass Pdf

Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion when life merges with art. Biography lovers will be inspired by the story of a precocious Baltimore boy, the son of a music-shop owner, who entered college at age fifteen, before traveling to Paris to study under the legendary Nadia Boulanger; Glass devotees will be fascinated by the stories behind Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, among so many other works. Whether recalling his experiences working at Bethlehem Steel, traveling in India, driving a cab in 1970s New York, or his professional collaborations with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, and Martin Scorsese, Words Without Music affirms the power of music to change the world.

Author : Jeanice Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226750712

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Nadia Boulanger and Her World by Jeanice Brooks Pdf

The strange fate of Boulanger and Pugno's La ville morte /Alexandra Laederich --Serious ambitions : Nadia Boulanger and the composition of La ville morte /Jeanice Brooks, Kimberly Francis --From the trenches : extracts from the final issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette /translated by Anna Lehman --From technique to musique : the institutional pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger /Marie Duchêne-Thégarid --Nadia Boulanger's 1935 Carte du tendre --36 rue Ballu : a multifaceted place /Cédric Segond-Genovesi --"What an arrival!" : Nadia Boulanger's New world (1925) --Modern French music : translating Fauré in America, 1925-1945 /Jeanice Brooks --For Nadia Boulanger : five poems by May Sarton --Friend and force : Nadia Boulanger's presence in Polish musical culture /Andrea F. Bohlman, J. Mackenzie Pierce --"What awaits them now?" : a letter to Paris /Zygmunt Mycielski --A letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger /translated by J. Mackenzie Pierce --The Beethoven lectures for the Longy School /translated by Miranda Stewart --Boulanger and atonality : a reconsideration /Kimberly Francis --Why music? Aesthetics, religion, and the ruptures of modernity in the life and work of Nadia Boulanger /Leon Botstein.

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464390

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From Boulanger to Stockhausen by Bálint András Varga Pdf

First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (György Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more.