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Article Excerpt
Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel et le Groupe des Six: Rencontres poetico-musicales autour des melodies et des chansons. By Catherine Miller. (Collection Musique Musicologie.) Liege: Pierre Mardaga, 2003. [284 p. ISBN 2-87009-852-9. [euro]29.] Music examples, illustrations, discography, bibliography, index.
Cocteau, Apollinaire, Claudel et le Groupe des Six is a revision of Catherine Miller's doctoral thesis at l'Universite catholique de Louvain. Despite the potentially misleading word order of its title, it is in fact a straight-forward historical survey of the contributions of Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, and Germaine Tailleferre to the genre of the French art song: la melodie or le chanson. The book is richly illustrated with numerous photos of the composers and poets in various groupings and a few musical autographs, and there are enough typeset musical examples to keep the narrative from collapsing under the weight of documentary detail--of which there is an impressive amount synthesized from a wide range of sources.
The book falls into three parts. Part 1, Le Groupe des Six et la litterature, systematically attends to each composer in turn, narrating their "Rencontres litteraire," providing an annotated list of their "Melodies et chansons," including those where the accompaniments are for instrumental ensemble rather than piano, and mapping...
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