Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon
- Author: Francis, Kimberly A.
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Note on Translations and Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- Note on Sources
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- Boulanger and Bourdieu
- Chapter Overview
- PART ONE
- 1. Foundations (1929-1932)
- Membre de famille: Boulanger and Soulima Stravinsky
- A trip to Brussels
- Lessons and love
- 2. Master Copy: Correcting the Symphonie de psaumes
- Editorial process and power
- Soulima Stravinsky and advanced studies
- Main idea or major and minor thirds
- A dialogue established
- 3. Surviving the Great Depression: 1932-1936
- The last Parisian project: Persephone
- Loss and recovery: 1935-36
- 4. Beyond France: 1937-1939
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Increasing tensions, failing health
- Toward war
- PART TWO
- 5. The War, 1940-1942
- Romantic complications
- American reunions
- 6. Together, 1942-1945
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- A way home
- Residue/rupture
- 7. Redefining a Partnership, Reestablishing an Icon: 1946-1949
- Stravinsky's Mass
- The beginning of the end
- PART THREE
- 8. The Last Project: The Rake's Progress, 1948-1952
- An opera
- The premiere: I've never seen such disorder
- Composition in early cold war America
- After Europe: A Rake's reception
- 9. Mediating Serialism
- A dialogue dissolves
- Concerts and commissions post-1952
- Boulanger teaches Stravinsky's twelve-tone music
- 10. Insider/Outsider
- Stravinsky's Failing Health
- Conclusion
- Bibliography