Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

Abstract

List of Figures List of Musical Examples Foreword: Telling History 1. Eve Sings, An Origin Story Melody Eve Sings Muteness Oral Pleasures Melos and Mimesis Mortal Melody Perfect prosody, androgynous melody Selfless Singers NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE The Mother Tongue Teaching the modern ABCs The People's Mouth L Figures of Speech Talking Machines Indelible Accents NOTES TO CHAPTER TWO Free Speech, Free Verse, and Music Before All Things Poetry and the People Vibrations of Language Accentus/ ad cantus Music After All Transcribing the voix parlee Unsung symbols NOTES TO CHAPTER THREE 4. L'Art de dire, or Language in Performance Venetian glass and marqueterie Vibrant noise, expressive elegance Dir(e) Expressions lyriques Forget that you are singers A Bird in a branch NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR 5. Farewell to an Idea La verite Natural history Une voix du passe? Realism revisited In the shadow of the Faun Mirages NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE Bibliography

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