Liber amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux
Subtitle: symbols, parallels and discoveries in her honor
By: Paul-André Bempéchat, editor.
Contributors: Cazeaux, Isabelle.; Bempéchat, Paul-André.
Series: Festschrift series ;; no. 19
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 521
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism.
Description: "The Grande Dame of Franco-American musicology, Professor Emerita Isabelle Cazeaux (Bryn Mawr College, 1963-1992) is here honored with a collection of twenty-seven articles, contributed by her devoted students, colleagues and admirers far and wide, including an original piece composed especially for this volume. Contributors offer essays spanning all eras and encompassing virtually all branches of musicology - aesthetics, analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, history, historiography, organology and philosophy."--Jacket.
Notes: In English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Matters of authenticity. Chopin's Polish rhapsody / Ferdinand Gajewski; title: Matters folkloric. L'emprunt, facteur de renouvellement musical dans les pays celtiques / Yves Defrance ; Gibbons in the Budapest Zoo : reflections on Hungarian folksong / James Kidd ; Folklore and reminiscence in Claude Debussy / Virginia Raad; title: Matters instrumental. Frédéric Triebert (1813-1878), designer of the modern oboe : newly found archival documents featuring the inventory and auction of his musical instrument enterprise / Tula Giannini ; Marking the accord of instrument and style, 1709-1768 / Sally C. Park; title: Matters naval. Jean Cras, the scientist : an explication of his navigational ruler, compass, la règle-rapporteur cras / Allan P. Archer; title: Matters novel. Album-leaf : for piano / John Davison; title: Matters operatic. Naturaliste et dreyfusard : Alfred Bruneau, compositeur engagé / Jean-Max Guieu; title: Deconstructive melodrama in the Hamlet of Ambroise Thomas / John Harrison ; Judith Gautier et les traductions de Parsifal / Danièle Pistone ; Gawain in opera / Jerome V. Reel; title: Matters operettic. The border territory between classical and Broadway : a voyage around and about, Four saints in three acts and West Side story / Ralph P. Locke ; Manuel de Falla's early works for the theater / Elizabeth Seitz; title: Matters of perception. Point-counter-point : Schoenberg meets Bach / John Daverio ; The problems of musical hermeneutics / Edward Lippman; title: Matters of reception. From Haus to Konzerthaus : orchestrations of Schubert's  Erlkönig and other lieder / Christopher H. Gibbs ; Chopin, the listener / Anthony Zielonka; title: Matters of the renaissance. Music for the royal entrée into Paris, 1453-1517 / Stephen Bonime ; Words for Marenzio's five-voice madrigals / Hiroko Kishimoto; title: Matters of revival. The romantic violinist-composer : pro-active artist before a susceptible public : a personal view / Charles Castleman ; Ravel writes to Jean Cras : three unpublished letters / Paul-André Bempéchat; title: Matters sacred. The cantus firmus of Josquin's Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie / Alexander Blachly ; When Kol nidrei is not Kol nidrei : synagogue reform in Aarhus, Denmark / Daniel S. Katz; title: Matters secular. "Fair winds and following seas" : Jean Cras' Journal de bord : Suite symphonique or Suite symbolique? / Prince Didier le Drontheux d'Ustou ; Some aspects of parallel harmony in Claude Debussy / Mark DeVoto ; Monsieur Hémiole 487 / Joel L. Sheveloff.