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The Cambridge Companion to French Music

  • Editor: Trezise, Simon

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Contents

  • Foreword Simon Trezise;
  • Part I . Chronological History of French Music from the Early Middle Ages to the Present:
  • 1. From abbey to cathedral and court: music under the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Capetian kings in France, through Louis IX Alice V. Clark;
  • 2. Cathedral and court: music under the late Capetian and Valois kings in France, to Louis XI Lawrence Earp;
  • 3. The Renaissance Fabrice Fitch;
  • 4. Music under Louis XIII and XIV (1610-1715) Peter Bennett and Georgia J. Cowart;
  • 5. Music from the Regency to the Revolution (1715-89) Debra Nagy;
  • 6. The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848 Michael McClellan and Simon Trezise;
  • 7. Renaissance and change: 1848 to 1914 Simon Trezise;
  • 8. La guerre et la paix: 1914-45 Andy Fry;
  • 9. Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain: music in France from the Second World War Jonathan Goldman;
  • Part II . Opera:
  • 10. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck Jacqueline Waeber;
  • 11. Opera and ballet after the Revolution Steven Huebner;
  • Part III . Other Musics:
  • 12. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study in France Luc Charles-Dominique;
  • 13. Popular music David Loosely;
  • Part IV . Themes and Topics:
  • 14. Manuscript sources and calligraphy John Haines;
  • 15. Church and state in early medieval France Andrew Tomasello;
  • 16. Music and the court of the ancien regime Jeanice Brooks;
  • 17. Musical aesthetics of the Siecle des Lumieres Georgia J. Cowart;
  • 18. Paris and the regions from the Revolution to World War I Katharine Ellis.