{"product_id":"the-faure-song-cycles-poetry-and-music-1861-1921-9780520297623","title":"The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861-1921","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel Faur 's \u003ci\u003em lodies \u003c\/i\u003eoffer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Faur  composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Faur  moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eLes fleurs du mal\u003c\/i\u003e before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Faur  reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. \u003ci\u003eThe Faur  Song Cycles \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Faur 's musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Faur 's musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Rumph \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMozart and Enlightenment Semiotics.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFauré Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, part of the Cambridge Composer Series.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50438273171730,"sku":"9780520297623","price":76.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_750ffb17-e73d-4513-b526-7acca6a19d39.jpg?v=1729649676","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-faure-song-cycles-poetry-and-music-1861-1921-9780520297623","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}