Interpreting the Musical Past Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

by Ellis, Katharine

• ISBN13: 9780195176827
• ISBN10: 0195176820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested in the nineteenth century. It surveys the main patterns of revivalist activity while also providing in-depth studies of repertories stretching from Adam de la Halle toRameau.

Author Biography

Katharine Ellis is Reader in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work centers on the cultural history of music in nineteenth-century France. She has published on "directors' opera" in the 1830s, Wagnerism, music criticism, women as performers, and music education. Current projects include a volume of Berlioziana edited with David Charlton, and a monograph on music in the French regions. A former joint editor of Music & Letters, Ellis is editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations,	xi
Introduction,	xiii
PART I Patterns of Revival
Chapter 1. 800-1846,	3	(40)
Chapter 2. 1846-1878,	43	(38)
Chapter 3. 1878-1900,	81	(38)
PART II Uses, Appropriations, Meanings
Chapter 4. La musique française at the Crossroads,	119	(28)
Chapter 5. Sources of Frenchness,	147	(32)
Chapter 6. Defining Palestrina,	179	(30)
Chapter 7. Baroque Choral Music: The Popular and the Profound,	209	(32)
Conclusion,	241	(16)
Personalia,	257	(6)
Bibliography,	263	(22)
Index,	285