L'orchestre de Louis XIII : 1601-1643 : recueil de plusieurs airs par Philidor L'Aisné /

“…Orchestre de Louis XIII…”
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Vive la France! / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Selections from Gaité parisienne / arr. and orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal (23:11) -- Orpheus in the Underworld (9:56) -- Kakadu. …”
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Vive la France! / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Selections from Gaîté parisienne / arranged and orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal (23:11)-- Orpheus in the underworld (8:56) -- Vert-Vert : Kakadu (7:01) -- La grande duchesse de Gérolstein (7:06) -- Concerto rondo in G major for cello and orchestra (with Ofra Harnoy, violoncello) (21:16) -- Overture to a grand orchestra (8:34) -- Souvenir d'Aix-les-Bains : valse (4:33) -- Schüler polka (2:07) -- American eagle waltz (with Philip Collins, trumpet) (6:07) -- La belle Hélène (9:21) -- L'île de Tulipatan (4:46).…”

French favourites /

Subjects: “…Orchestral music France.…”
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Andalussyat / by Atlan, Françoise

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The French connection /

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Evenings with the orchestra. by Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

“…Soirées de l'orchestre.…”

Playing for time / by Fénelon, Fania

“…Sursis pour l'orchestre.…”

Playing for time / by Fénelon, Fania, Routier, Marcelle

“…Sursis pour l'orchestre.…”

A Theater of Diplomacy : International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. by Welch, Ellen R.

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Ariane & Bluebeard : from fairy tale to comic book opera /

Table of Contents: “…Performing Ariane et Barbe-bleue : from premiere to orchestral suite /…”
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A theater of diplomacy : international relations and the performing arts in early modern France / by Welch, Ellen R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Orchestrating Dissonant Concord in the Bayonne Entertainments (1565) -- The Ambassador's Point of View, from London to Paris (1608-9) -- National Actors on the Ballet Stage (1620s-30s) -- Richeliu's Allegories of War (1639-42) -- Ballet Diplomacy at the Congress of Westphalia (1645-49) -- Entertaining Personalities at Louis XIV's Court (1653-69) -- Exotic Audiences (1668-1715) -- Diplomacy on the Public Stage (1697-1714).…”

Gendered frames, embodied cameras : Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn / by McFadden, Cybelle H., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Self-construction through faux narratives -- Orchestrated reflexivity: Sophie Calle's narrative body as artist -- Faux reflexivity: Maïwenn's camera and the female body -- Conclusion: Reflections on gendered frames, embodied cameras.…”
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Interior decorating in nineteenth-century France : the visual culture of a new profession / by Lasc, Anca I.

Table of Contents: “…Front matter; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The collector as taste advisor and interior decorator: popular advice manuals and the orchestration of the private interior; The inventor of interiors: old professions in search of a name; Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes; The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs; Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic…”
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Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music / by Frazier, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Durufle's childhood and early education -- Life at the cathedral choir school -- Lessons with Charles Tournemire -- Lessons with Louis Vierne -- The conservatoire student -- Durufle's distinctions -- The contested successions at Notre-Dame and Sainte Clotilde -- Durufle's performing career -- The orchestral musician -- The Poulenc organ concerto -- Professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire -- Marie-Madeleine Chevalier -- Overview of Durufle's compositions -- Durufle's compositions : their genesis and first performances -- Durufle's role in the plainsong revival -- The Vichy commissions -- The Requiem -- The musical history of Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- The organs at Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- Durufle as organist and teacher -- Durufle and organ design -- The Church in transition -- The North American tours -- The man Durufle.…”
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Maurice Duruflé : the man and his music / by Frazier, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Duruflé's childhood and early education -- Life at the cathedral choir school -- Lessons with Charles Tournemire -- Lessons with Louis Vierne -- The conservatoire student -- Duruflé's distinctions -- The contested successions at Notre-Dame and Sainte Clotilde -- Duruflé's performing career -- The orchestral musician -- The Poulenc organ concerto -- Professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire -- Marie-Madeleine Chevalier -- Overview of Duruflé's compositions -- Duruflé's compositions : their genesis and first performances -- Duruflé's role in the plainsong revival -- The Vichy commissions -- The Requiem -- The musical history of Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- The organs at Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- Duruflé as organist and teacher -- Duruflé and organ design -- The Church in transition -- The North American tours -- The man Duruflé.…”
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Maurice Duruflé : the man and his music / by Frazier, James E.

Table of Contents: “…Duruflé's childhood and early education -- Life at the cathedral choir school -- Lessons with Charles Tournemire -- Lessons with Louis Vierne -- The conservatoire student -- Duruflé's distinctions -- The contested successions at Notre-Dame and Sainte Clotilde -- Duruflé's performing career -- The orchestral musician -- The Poulenc organ concerto -- Professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire -- Marie-Madeleine Chevalier -- Overview of Duruflé's compositions -- Duruflé's compositions : their genesis and first performances -- Duruflé's role in the plainsong revival -- The Vichy commissions -- The Requiem -- The musical history of Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- The organs at Saint Étienne-du-Mont -- Duruflé as organist and teacher -- Duruflé and organ design -- The Church in transition -- The North American tours -- The man Duruflé.…”
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The art of French piano music : Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier / by Howat, Roy

Table of Contents: “…; Editions and what they can't quite tell us ; Rhythm, tempo, dance and humour ; A fresh look at Gabriel Fauré ; Orchestral thinking and the pedals ; Body language and the piano ; The composer as pianist) -- Appendices ('Facilement, facilement' : finding technical ease ; Glosses on titles and musical allusions ; Composers' surviving instruments and recordings ; Brief summary of critical editions ; Locations of musical manuscripts discussed).…”
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Claude Debussy : a critical biography / by Lesure, François

Table of Contents: “…An unsettled childhood: 1862-72 -- Failure of a pianist: 1872-79 -- Birth of a composer: 1880-82 -- The path to the Prix de Rome: 1882-84 -- The Villa Medici: 1885-87 -- Beginning of the Bohemian period: 1887-89 -- From Baudelaire to Mallarmé: 1890-91 -- Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892 -- The Chausson year: 1893 -- A "fairy tale" gone awry: 1894 -- Pierre Louÿs; the lean years: 1895-96 -- Pelléas -the long wait: 1895-98 -- From bachelorhood to marriage: 1897-99 -- Nocturnes: 1900-1901 -- The composer as critic: 1901-3 -- Pelléas et Mélisande: 1902 -- From the fêtes galantes to La mer: 1903 -- Debussyism; a new life: 1904 -- La mer: 1905 -- Projects and skirmishes: 1906-7 -- Orchestra conductor: 1908 -- "The procrastination syndrome": 1909 -- Orchestral Images and piano Préludes: 1910 -- Le martyre de saint Sébastien: 1911 -- The year of the ballets: 1912 -- Jeux; travel to Russia: 1913 -- The final trips: 1914 -- The war; Pourville: 1914-15 -- "The factories of nothingness": 1916-18…”
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America in the French imaginary, 1789 -1914 : music, revolution and race /

Table of Contents: “…Hallman -- Justamant's Le bossu and depictions of Indigenous Americans in nineteenth-century French ballet / Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer -- Louisiana imagined : gender, race and slavery in Le planteur (1839) / Helena Kopchick-Spencer -- "Brise du Sud": American identity and war in the popular sheet music of francophone New Orleans / Charlotte Bentley -- "The most seductive Creole indolence" : Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French press / Laura Moore Pruett -- Symphonies from the new world : the myths and realities of American orchestral music in France / Douglas W. Shadle -- Historical acoustemology in the French romantic travelogue : Chateaubriand's sonic imagining of the new world / Ruth E. …”
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