Ellis, Katharine - French Musical Life

French Musical Life is a study of French musical centralization and its discontents during the period leading up to and beyond the provincial awakening of the Belle Epoque.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
-Centralization and its discontents
-Decentralization, deconcentration, regionalism
-Politics, then and now
-A Study in four Parts
-Approaches
Part I Education
Introduction
Chapter 1: The National Conservatoire System
-Class and access: working-class men
-Class and status: young bourgeoises
-Power, hard and soft
-Directorial discretion: curricula
-The 1930s: towards reform
Chapter 2: Educational Independence
-Pedagogical Difference c.1900
-The Schola's ghostly presences I: Montpellier
-The Schola's ghostly presences II: Severac's vision, Le Havre and Nancy
-Strasbourg
-Bordeaux
-Composition: the final frontier
Part II Concert Rites
Introduction
Chapter 3: Choral Voices
-Orpheons: uniformity and regional identity
-Cathedral maitrises
-Mixed choirs: Poitou-Charentes and Strasbourg
-Belle Epoque ambition: Bordes, Witkowski and Lyon
Chapter 4: Instrumental Music and Urban Gravitas
-Private, public, populaire
-The Symphony orchestra as musical hub
-Amateur to professional
-Provincial programming: orchestral, chamber and specialist ensembles
-Local vs. (inter)national
Part III Stage Musics
Introduction
Chapter 5: Opera Against the Odds
-The 1864 liberte des theatres
-Municipal perspectives
-Industry perspectives
Chapter 6: Operatic Competition
-The Cafe-Concert
-Operetta
-Touring: individual and collective
-Technology
Chapter 7: Opera Inside and Out
-Wagner's tour de France
-Couleur locale in Paris and at home
-Open-air opera
Part IV Folk, Region, Nation
Introduction
Chapter 8: Folk Musics
-The French folk-music problem
-Politics of collection, transcription, and classification
-Soundscapes of popular Catholicism
-Folk music, the peasant, and the bourgeoisie
-Display, domestication, tourism
-Coda
Chapter 9: Composition
-A View from 1937
-Provincial career paths
-Rethinking the Schola's regionalism
-The Allure of the Russian Five
-Back to opera: regionalism and nation
-Mode, multi-regionalism, and patrimoine
Conclusions
-Decentralization through the lens of Lyon
-Musical localism
-Repositioning the rural
Bibliography
Index

Series	AMS Studies in Music