The Faure Song CyclesAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 29 September 2020
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Gabriel FaurAcâ?Ts mAclodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that haveA made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, FaurAc composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. FaurAc moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaireâ?Ts Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, FaurAc reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The FaurAc Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of FaurAcâ?Ts musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of FaurAcâ?Ts musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.
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