Details of consequence : ornament, music, and art in Paris / Gurminder Kaur Bhogal.

Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned their attention to the seemingly...

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Main Author: Bhogal, Gurminder Kaur
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Series:AMS studies in music.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ornament and expression in music and the visual arts
  • Ornament and the arabesque : from line to melody
  • Ornament and virtuosity in French piano music
  • Ornament and antiquity from Debussy's Arabesque to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé
  • Ornament and neo-primitivism in Le sacre du printemps
  • Ornament and disenchantment around the First World War.