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Early Twentieth Century Vocal Performance Practice And The French School: An Exploration Of The Lectures And Selected Songs By Reynaldo Hahn, Mary P. Hubbell

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Composer, conductor, singer, and critic Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947) was a highly influential figure in Paris’s artistic circles during the first half of the twentieth century. Today he is primarily remembered as a composer of art song. However, during his lifetime he was also admired as a sophisticated composer of operetta and chamber music, and his keen intellect and attention to detail also made him a discerning music critic and arbiter of taste. In 1913, he was invited to present a series of five lectures on the art of singing to the “Université des Annales.” This organization produced presentations by prominent …

Rethinking L'Exception Culturelle In French Music Then And Now: Language, Memory, And Political Order, Melanie Ann Lafoy

Masters Theses

Through this thesis, entitled “Rethinking l'exception culturelle in French Music then and now: Language, Memory, and Political Order,” I explore the concept of exception culturelle as it relates to music in France. I break down this concept by situating current French music trends within a historical landscape, highlighting certain moments of tension between music, politics, and language that appear in the decades after the Dreyfus Affair (1894), which I consider to be a turning point in the way French music is and was perceived inside and outside French national borders. I also examine the years after the second World …

Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of New Russia (interview with Albert Coates

Do Snakes Like Music?

Ethelbert Nevin's A Day in Venice (Un Giorno in Venezia): A New Tone Film Presentation Which is Commanding National Attention

Give the Child a Good Piano

Staccato Accents

Baseball and Scales

Use the Metronome in Practicing Sight-reading

Novelty for Your Recital

National Element in Polish Music

Getting a Start in Music Teaching in the Country

How One Teacher Did It

Art of Program Making

Accompanist

Music of the Land of the Bourrée

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Experimenting With the …

Volume 47, Number 05 (May 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin's Perfection of Detail

Fourten Prima Donnas of the Pianoforte

Inspiration Road

Practice Difficult Passages

Teaching the Values of Notes

Matter of Rests

Laugh or Two

Making Plain the Seventh Chord

Indexng as an Aid to Memorizing

How to Impress the First Lesson Upon the Child

Playing and Singing the First Piece

Music of Paris, the Inimitable

Octaves and Blocks

Relaxation

Favorite Musical Instruments of a Past Generation

On Ability to Sight-Read

Me and My Shadow

Broken Chords

Nothing to Practice

Saving Lost Motion in Piano Study

Simple Way of Teaching the Value of the Dot

To Learn Letters and …

Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Beginnings in Vocal Art (interview with Emma Calvé)

Camille Saint-Saëns Parting Advice on Piano Study

Be Your Own Surgeon

Memory of a Great Conductor

What Berlioz Thought of Us

Too Much Practice is Waste: How to Get Results Without Nerve Drain and Muscular Fatigue by Employing Scientific Methods

Artist is Always Ready

Making Pupils Count

Fraudulent Musical Masterpieces

What Did the Ancients Mean by Music of the Spheres

Some New Facts about the Creator of the Nocturne: John Field of Dublin

Paste This in Your Instruction Book: Common Sense Hints to Piano Students

About Triplets

What Makes a Great …

Volume 32, Number 04 (April 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

School Debussy Has Established

Personal Recollections of Gounod (interview with Emma Eames)

Grand Prix de Rome and Those Who Have Won It

Concise Dictionary of French Musicians

What the Piano Student is Expected to Accomplish at the Paris Conservatoire

Intimate View of Massenet

Rise of Modern French Music

Some Points for Beginner-Teachers

Tragic Career of Bizet

Arrest Richard Wagner

Disseminating General Musical Knowledge in Country Districts and Small Towns

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Saint-Saëns

Brief History of Music in France

Salaries Paid the Teachers at the Paris Conservatory

Development of Accuracy in Pianoforte Playing

How Paderewski Practiced

How to …

Volume 25, Number 06 (June 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johannes Brahms: The Classical Spirit in Music

Some Sayings of Brahms

Estimate of Brahms' Work

Brahms as a Practical Joker

How Liszt Taught

Chorus in the Small Town, with Some Side-Lights on Its Influence on American Music

Edvard Grieg: The Scandinavian Spirit in Music

Jacques the Dreamer: The Story of a Musician, with a Moral in It

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns: A Representative of French Music

Story of the Minuet

History Questions for Music Students

Importance of Finger Training

Cornelius Gurlitt

Monument to Stephen Heller

Volume 23, Number 10 (October 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert Hall of the Paris Conservatoire

Making of Tone Color Effects on the Piano

Liszt as a Pianoforte Writer

Hints for Inexperienced Teachers

Music and Life

Opportune Bending of the Musical Twig: A Few Suggestions in Elementary Piano Teaching

Young Music Teacher

Foundation of Sight Reading

Estimate of Johann Sebastian Bach

Gounod and Faust

Mission of Music in the Public Schools

Essentials of Success

Music Lessons the Soldiers Taught

Volume 21, Number 01 (January 1903), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Paris as a Music Center for Music Study

Ground Principles of Musical Interpretation

What, How, Where to Teach

American Music-Teaching

Keeping in the Forefront of Progress

First Flights of a Singer: A Story of a Prominent American Singer

Private Teacher versus the Conservatory

Volume 19, Number 07 (July 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Study or Summer Rest

Hartwell-Jones (Hamilton Gray)

What Fashion Does for Music

Between Seasons

Summer and Post-Graduate Work for Teachers

Children's Classes as Suitable for Summer Work

Summer Musical Classes for Juveniles

New Light on Summer Study

Development of Music in the South During the Past Twenty Years

Study Abroad No Guarantee of Success at Home

Thorough Practice on Old Pieces

Some Peculiar Teachers

Artistic Temperament

Some Definitions of Music

If I Were a Young Music Teacher

Long Hair and Pianism: A True Story

Mr. Pol Plançon: The Study of the French Song