The Cambridge Companion to French Music

Simon Trezise is an Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College, Dublin. His research focuses on the music of Debussy and France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history and practice of recording, aspects of performance practice and film music. His publications include Debussy: La Mer (Cambridge, 1995) and The Cambridge Companion to Debussy (editor, Cambridge, 2003).

• Foreword Simon Trezise; Part I. Chronological History of French Music from the Early Middle Ages to the Present: 1. From abbey to cathedral and court: music under the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Capetian kings in France, through Louis IX Alice V. Clark; 2. Cathedral and court: music under the late Capetian and Valois kings in France, to Louis XI Lawrence Earp; 3. The Renaissance Fabrice Fitch; 4. Music under Louis XIII and XIV (1610–1715) Peter Bennett and Georgia J. Cowart; 5. Music from the Regency to the Revolution (1715–89) Debra Nagy; 6. The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848 Michael McClellan and Simon Trezise; 7. Renaissance and change: 1848 to 1914 Simon Trezise; 8. La guerre et la paix: 1914–45 Andy Fry; 9. Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain: music in France from the Second World War Jonathan Goldman; Part II. Opera: 10. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck Jacqueline Waeber; 11. Opera and ballet after the Revolution Steven Huebner; Part III. Other Musics: 12. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study in France Luc Charles-Dominique; 13. Popular music David Loosely; Part IV. Themes and Topics: 14. Manuscript sources and calligraphy John Haines; 15. Church and state in early medieval France Andrew Tomasello; 16. Music and the court of the ancien régime Jeanice Brooks; 17. Musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières Georgia J. Cowart; 18. Paris and the regions from the Revolution to World War I Katharine Ellis.

'Few devotees of French music and culture will not find a treasure-trove of enlightening information in this brilliantly cast multi-author book … This excellent book is much more than a springboard and will provide an invaluable key for any Francophile wanting to deepen their knowledge of issues, periods and repertoire with which they are not so familiar: questions addressed by the contributors to this learned and expert volume.' Richard Langham Smith, H-France