Music Musique: French and American Piano Composition in the Jazz Age

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Notes 2. The Formation of a French Style of Composition 1. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. d’Indy, Vincent. 2. For a detailed study of the songs of Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy, see Barbara Meister, Nineteenth-Century French Song (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980). 3. Claude Debussy, Debussy on Music: The Critical Writings of the Great French Composer Claude Debussy, trans. Richard Langham Smith, collected and introduction by François Lesure (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977) (originally published as Monsieur Croche et autres écrits), p. 54. 4. Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: Romanticism and the Twentieth Century (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 109–110. 5. Ibid., p. 111. 6. Quoted in Rollo Myers, Chabrier and His Circle (London: J. M. Dent, 1969), pp. 40–41 (quoted from a letter by Mme Chabrier written in 1882). 7. Ibid. 8. Quoted in E. Robert Schmitz, The Piano Works of Claude Debussy (London: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), pp. xvii–xviii. 9. Quoted in Gail Hilson Woldu, “Debussy, Fauré and d’Indy and Conceptions of the Artist: The Institutions, the Dialogues, the Conflicts,” Jane F. Fulcher, ed., Debussy and His World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 247. 10. Quoted in Jane F. Fulcher, “Introduction: Constructions and Reconstructions of Debussy,” in Fulcher, Debussy and His World, p. 2. 11. Christophe Carle, “Debussy in Fin-de-Siècle Paris,” in Fulcher, Debussy and His World, p. 273. 12. Marguerite Long, At the Piano with Debussy (London: J. M. Dent, 1972), p. 6. 13. Ibid. 14. Mellers, Man and His Music, p. 131. 15. Jack Sullivan, New World Symphonies (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 198. 16. Debussy, Debussy on Music, p. 83. 17. Mellers, Man and His Music, p. 132. 18. Quoted in Noel Riley Fitch, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983), p. 149. Notes to pages 19–36 144 19. Quoted in Sullivan, New World Symphonies, p. 204. 20. Quoted in Bruno Monsaingeon, Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger (Manchester: Carcanet, 1985), p. 26. 3. The Formation of an American Style of Composition 1. Jeremy Eichler, “Crossing Old World Angst with New World Music,” review in the New York Times of Michael B. Beckerman’s New World of Dvorak, January 10, 2003. 2. Richard Crawford, America’s Musical Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), pp. 12–14. 3. Ibid., pp. 17–30. 4. Ibid., p. 38. 5. Ibid., p. 57. 6. William Shack, Harlem in Montmartre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), p. 28. 7. Harold Schonberg, The Great Pianists (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), pp. 205–207. 8. Sullivan, New World Symphonies, pp. 196–197. 9. Quoted in Crawford, America’s Musical Life, p. 342. 10. Schonberg, The Great Pianists, p. 177. 11. Crawford, America’s Musical Life, p. 293. 12. Ibid., p. 304. 13. Quoted in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. Foster, Stephen, as well as in Crawford, America’s Musical Life, p. 213. 14. The information for this discussion was taken in large part from program notes by Steven Blier for a concert given on November 20, 2002, at Weill Hall in New York City entitled “Dvořák and the American Soul.” Mr. Blier, cofounder of the New York Festival of Song and a faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music, credits Michael Beckerman, author of New Worlds of Dvořák, for much of the research in his notes. 15. Quoted in program notes by Steven Blier for New York Festival of Song concert , November 20, 2002. 16. Judith E. Carman, William K. Gaeddert, and Rita M. Resch, eds., Art Song in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged (Jacksonville , Fla.: National Association of Teachers of Singing, 1987). 17. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. Foote, Arthur. 18. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. Chadwick, George. 19. Crawford, America’s Musical Life, p. 461. 20. Joseph Kerman, Listen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), p. 361. 4. A Brief History of Jazz in America 1. Bill Kirchner, ed., The Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 5. 2. William Youngren, “European Roots of Jazz,” in ibid., p. 19. 3. Ibid., p. 17. 4. Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., “African Origins of Jazz,” in Kirchner, Oxford Companion to Jazz, p. 13. 5. Ibid., p. 12. [3.141.244.201] Project MUSE...