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Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions...
Pianists and the Music of Their Time
The dialogue between composers and performers, using the score as a point of departure and reference, as well as reactions and practices concerning unknown music, are explored by the author, conducting interviews with renowned pianists responsible for premiering works by major 20th-century composers, and accessing music press.
French Art Song
Part I: Poet. Baudelaire's invitation to composers ; Song and memory in the 'Terrible Year' ; 'To the depths of the Unknown in search of the new!' -- Interlude. The poet sings -- Part II. Singer. Mélodie at the crossroads ; Song, salons and the 'society singer' ; Collaboration and creative process -- Interlude. The voices of Fêtes galantes -- Part III. Public. Singing histories ; Reimagining song at the Conservatoire ; Mélodie centre stage ; Postlude. Philosophies of composition.
Fauré Studies
Presents new research on Fauré by leading scholars, encompassing hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.
Roy Howat
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Debussy in Proportion
An analysis that accounts precisely for the nature of Debussy's musical forms and how forms of different works are related. Geometric systems found here throw new light on Debussy's intense interest in the other arts and provide links with artists he admired in other fields.
Debussy Studies
A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.
The Art of French Piano Music
An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context. Howat explores the musical language and ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing issues. He also relates his four composers historically and stylistically to such predecessors as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, the French harpsichord school, and Russian and Spanish music. Challenging long-held assumptions about performance practice, Howat elucidates the rhythmic vitality and invention inherent in French music. In granting Faure and Chabrier equal consideration wit...
Roy Howat, Piano
Performance by British pianist: Roy Howat, part of the "Lunch hour concert series", performing "Douze Etudes" by Claude Debussy, presented by the Elder Conservatorium of Music.
