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Nadia Boulanger and Her World
About This Book
Nadia Boulanger (1887â1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composersâ especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glassâstudying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a formative moment in a creative career.Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, and charismatic and inspirational teacher, Boulanger engaged in a vast array of activities in a variety of media, from private composition lessons and lecture-recitals to radio broadcasts, recordings, and public performances. But how to define and account for Boulanger's impact on the music world is still unclear. Nadia Boulanger and Her World takes us from a time in the late nineteenth century, when many careers in music were almost entirely closed to women, to the moment in the late twentieth century when those careers were becoming a reality. Contributors consider Boulanger's work in the worlds of composition, musical analysis, and pedagogy and explore the geographies of transatlantic and international exchange and disruption within which her career unfolded. Ultimately, this volume takes its title as a topic for explorationâasking what worlds Boulanger belonged to, and in what sense we can consider any of them to be "hers."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Series Page
- Contents
- Preface: The Only Woman in the Picture
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions and Credits
- The Strange Fate of Boulanger and Pugnoâs La ville morte
- Serious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morte
- From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette
- From Technique to Musique: The Institutional Pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger
- Nadia Boulangerâs 1935 Carte du Tendre
- 36 rue Ballu: A Multifaceted Place
- âWhat an Arrival!â: Nadia Boulangerâs New World (1925)
- Modern French Music: Translating FaurĂ© in America, 1925â1945
- For Nadia Boulanger: Five Poems by May Sarton
- Friend and Force: Nadia Boulangerâs Presence in Polish Musical Culture
- âWhat Awaits Them Now?â: A Letter to Paris
- A Letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger
- The Beethoven Lectures for the Longy School
- Boulanger and Atonality: A Reconsideration
- Why Music? Aesthetics, Religion, and the Ruptures of Modernity in the Life and Work of Nadia Boulanger
- Index
- Notes on the Contributors
- Series List