The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars

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A fresh look at the career of Nadia Boulanger, among the most influential musical figures of the entire twentieth century. Cover Contents Figures Tables Music examples Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction The works that stand for the time “Vous avez les oeuvres qui répondent pour le temps” Part I The work in performance Chapter 1 Nadia Boulanger between the wars Vers la vie nouvelle The path to the podium Chapter 2 Nadia Boulanger’s musical work The architectural masterwork: Boulanger and the turn to form Listening to the temple: singing architecture and living form Sacred mysteries Chapter 3 Performing the work Making music with Nadia Boulanger Performing France? Singing architecture and sounding form Sounding the future, performing the past Part II The work in history Chapter 4 The problem of concerts Que de trouvailles! Boulanger’s repertoire between the wars Audacious juxtapositions Chapter 5 New links between them More useful for education and pleasure The second road: encounters with history Hearing history Chapter 6 Tomb or treasure The past lights the present, the present the past Galleries in the musical museum Chapter 7 The art of assembling art Collecting past and future at Dumbarton Oaks The work in performance and treasuring art Conclusion Bibliography Archival and manuscript sources Caversham, UK, BBC written archives center (GB-CABBC) London, British library (GB-LBL) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de france (F-PN) Département de la Musique (Louvois) Bibliothèque François-Mitterand (Tolbiac) Département des Arts du Spectacle (Richelieu) Paris, centre nadia et lili boulanger (CNLB Lyon, conservation national supérieur de musique et danse (F-LYC) Cambridge, pusey library, harvard university archive (HUA) Washington, dc, library of congress (US-WC) Basel, paul sacher stiftung, bibliothek (CH-BPS) Writings of nadia boulanger Le monde musical Le spectateur Other publications Published transcriptions of lectures by nadia boulanger Other sources Discography Recordings by nadia boulanger Other recordings Index