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Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870. By David Tunley. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2002. [xii, 283 p. ISBN 0-754-60491-8. $79.95.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
Few aspects of French cultural life have been as misunderstood or maligned as the salons. Today, the expression "salon music" carries connotations of superficiality and sentimentality, while that of "salon composer" serves as a slight, if not an outright insult. Yet these epithets are more than demeaning--they perpetuate the myth that salons were just elitist entertainments where innocuous trifles accompanied pleasant conversation.
Fortunately, this inequity is being redressed. Cecile Tardif ("Faure and the Salons," in Regarding Faure, ed. Tom Gordon [Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1999], 1-14) and Jeanice Brooks ("Nadia Boulanger and the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac," in Journal of the American Musicological Society 46 [1993]: 415-68), among others, have demonstrated that the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Parisian gatherings fostered some of the...
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