Style and Form in Louise Talma's Early Songs.

An examination of Louise Talma's four earliest works for voice and piano, written between 1925 and 1928, and her first extant mature work, Fourteen Groundbass Variations on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” explores the origins of the composer's early neoclassical style, tracing the develop...

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Publicado en:Journal of Musicological Research Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 297 - 326
Autor principal: Leonard, KendraPreston
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct-Dec2012
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Sumario:An examination of Louise Talma's four earliest works for voice and piano, written between 1925 and 1928, and her first extant mature work, Fourteen Groundbass Variations on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” explores the origins of the composer's early neoclassical style, tracing the development of specific compositional traits from pieces written before her study with Nadia Boulanger in France to works completed after herself becoming an instructor at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau.