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18th-19th Century Song Literature: French Music
French Music beginning early 19th century
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12/12/2012

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George Sand (1804-1876)
Definition
Born Aurore Dupin
Married, became Baroness
Raised by grandmother on estate, Noha
Royal (father), commoner (mother)
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"Liszt at the Piano"
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Painting, 1840, by Josef Danhauser
Statue of Beethoven at Window
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19th Century Bel canto composers
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
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Manuel Garcia II
Definition
wrote earliest books on voice pedagogy
Father, first Count Almaviva
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Adolphe Nouritt and Luigi Lablache
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Leading baritones in Paris Opera
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Soirées
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featured politics, literary discussion, singing, art, etc.
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Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
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Parisian painter
Large/colorful pieces
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Ivan Turgenev
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Russian writer; in love with Pauline Garcia
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Pauline Garcia
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Parisian mezzo-soprano and composer
Becomes Viardot
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"Pace non trovo" Sonetto 104
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Franz Liszt
solo piano piece, arranged by Liszt
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2 of largest opera companies
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Paris Opera
Opera Italien
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Opera companies subsidized by govt.
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At least 8
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Marie Dagu
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Known for throwing soirées
Left husband for Franz Liszt (3 children)
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Vanne, o rosa fortunata
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Bellini (known as supreme melodist)
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Franz Liszt
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Big performer of Schubert pieces; performed them in Paris
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Dolente immagine di Fille mia
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Bellini
Shape/contour of melody prominent; primarily conjunct; repeated text
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Benefits of pianist/composer around 1840
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write for music publishing
solo public performance
teaching
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Nocturne in C minor
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Chopin
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Pauline Garcia Viardot and Lully Viardot
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Pauline: Debut at age 7
Lully: Impressario at Paris Opera
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Filles de Cadiz
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Pauline Viardot
Text, Alfred de Musset
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O! quand je dors
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Franz Liszt
Text, Victor Hugo
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Aragonese
Definition
Gioacchino Rossini
Text, Pietro Metastasio
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La mort D'Ophélie
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Hector Berlioz
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Le Chasseur Danois (1844)
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Hector Berlioz
Text, Adolfe de Leuven
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Ravel talks on Gounod
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Gounod - true founder of melodie
Gounod moved away from vocal subtlety
Gounod sought to show blend b/n accompaniment and vocal line
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Venise (1842)
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Charles Gounod
Text, Alfred de Musset
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"Sérénade (1855)
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Charles Gounod
Text, Victor Hugo
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Chanson Triste (1868)
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Henri Duparc
Text, Henri Cazalis (Jean Lahor, pseudonym)
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L'invitation au voyage
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Gounod
Text, Charles Baudelaire
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Phidylé
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Gounod
Text, Leconte de Lisle
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Parnassiens
Definition
French poets headed by Lconte de Lisle
Interest in modal harmony and change within melodic structure/modal inflection
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Lydia
Definition
Faure
Poem, Leconte de Lisle
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Aprés un rêve
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Faure
Poem, Romain Bussine
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Au bord de l'eau Op, 8, no. 1
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Faure
Poem, Sully Prudhomme
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Nell Op. 18, no. 1
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Faure
Poem, Leconte de Lisle
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Les Berceaux Op, 23, no. 1
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Faure
Poem, Sully Prudhomme
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Les roses d'lopahan
Definition
Faure
Poem, Leconte de Lisle
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Watteau
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Dominant figure in French art
Interested in color/expression (Rubanist)
Painted: Pierrot, The Embarkation from Cythera, Portrait of a Gentleman
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Pantomime (1882)
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Debussy
Text, Paul Verlaine
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Mandoline
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Debussy
Text, Verlaine
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En Sourdine
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Debussy
Text, Verlaine
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C'est l'extase
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Debussy
Text, Verlaine
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Clair de lune
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Debusy, Faure, and ______
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La Chevelure from Chansons de Bilitis
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Debussy
Text, Pierre Louys
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