Artisans, génies et vedettes : le statut des compositeurs dans la presse musicale française

Ce mémoire propose d’explorer quel(s) statut(s) sont accordés aux compositeurs contemporains dans le contexte musical parisien des premières années du XXe siècle à travers une analyse de la presse musicale spécialisée de l’époque. Le corpus de notre recherche est constitué de trois revues, chacune ancrée dans des sphères de sociabilités bien distinctes : La Revue musicale (histoire et critique), une « revue savante » proche du milieu de la Schola cantorum ; Le Mercure musical, une « petite revue » d’avant-garde militant en faveur de la musique de Maurice Ravel ; et Musica, une « grande revue » destinée à un lectorat issu de la petite bourgeoisie en plein essor, essentiellement féminin et pratiquant la musique en amateur. Cette étude révèle que la traditionnelle opposition entre la conception du compositeur-artisan et celle du compositeur-génie issue de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et du XIXe siècle voit apparaître un troisième joueur à l’aube du XXe siècle : le compositeur-vedette, un statut qui était jusqu’alors généralement réservé aux interprètes. Ces trois statuts coexistent dans le panorama de la presse musicale du tournant du XXe siècle, et leur promotion par certains organes de presse spécifiques répond à une logique tantôt esthétique, tantôt économique. Il se dégage de cette étude que la presse musicale constitue non seulement un indice des variations qu’a subies la figure du compositeur dans le spectre de la grandeur en culture, mais qu’elle a également joué un rôle actif dans ces transformations.

Hill's Opera House, Ann Arbor, Mich. : the Strakosch concert

Front page of four-page program which contains complete list of performers, works performed, and advertisement for Weber pianos

Will-o'-the-wisp, or, The shot in the dark : a comedy drama in three acts /

"Cast of characters as given at the first production at the National Theatre Comique, Cincinati, Ohio, under the management of Mr. Nat Hyams, Monday, December 18th, 1876."

Race at the Interface: Rendering Blackness on WorldStarHipHop.com

WorldStarHipHop.com (WSHH) is an online video aggregating website that describes itself as “the premiere online hip hop destination” and a home for “urban media.” Yet, browsing through the site provides little clarity on what constitutes a hip-hop video or urban Internet space because of the disparate video content, the actual racial diversity of the performers, and the website’s generic design. As a result, WSHH’s taglines make a strange claim about the current state of the black musical tradition. Through close readings of the site, this article considers the architecture of this space of interracial exchange and identifies the interface as an example of Modernist architectural simplicity. I argue WSHH’s modular design is flexible enough to include non-black bodies, while remaining a black “urban” space. Thus, the site’s straightforward architecture paradoxically becomes the scaffolding of a much more complex, de-corporealized, and “shareable” blackness.

The circus kings : our Ringling family story /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fifty years of a showman's life, or, The life and travels of Van Hare /

Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.

A lucky job; a Negro farce,

"To which are added a description of the costumes, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business."

Obeying orders : Ethiopian military sketch in one scene /

"To which are added a description of the costumes, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business."

A case of jealousy : a comedy in two acts /

"To which is [sic] added a description of the costumes, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business."

The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes /

"To which are added a description of the costumes, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business."

The rival valets : a farce in two acts /

"Embellished with a wood engraving from an original drawing by T. Jones and executed by Mr. White."

Les suspects : comédie en un acte, mêlée d'ariettes /

Includes stage directions.

The freeman mill strike : a comedy drama in three acts /

Advertisements on p. (1-3) at end.

The Dramatic magazine

"Embellished with numerous engravings of the principal performers."

Through a Literary Lens: The Effect of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Writing Styles on the Compositional Techniques of Robert Schumann

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2016-06