Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France

Silverman, Debora L.

doi:10.1525/9780520913288

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“…Bhogal (2013) has connected metric complexity in the solo piano pieces of Ravel and Debussy with a period of increased interest in decorative textures and non-normative experiences of time in early-20th-century French intellectual culture. A score with frequently changing meter can also be tied to Bergson's influential notion of durée, the intuitive and dynamic inner flow of an individual's thoughts and perceptions (Harrison, 2015), and to an interest among certain late-19 th -century French artists in the "private organicism" of interior states (Silverman, 1989). Musical time is a remarkable way for humans to represent and instantiate relationships among different aspects of their lives.…”

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Social Mechanisms of Musical Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France

Harrison

2021

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This study examined notated meter changes in scores by French composers to probe the role of sociological mechanisms in musical stylistic change. The stylistic feature of notated meter changes, which indexed metrical complexity, was conducive to empirical observation and functioned as a salient innovation in France around 1900. The principal sociological variable was membership in the Apaches artistic club, known for its avant-garde identity. A hypothesis that the Apaches would use significantly more meter changes than their peers was supported. Additional explanatory variables were derived from previous historical research on French composers and from theories about stylistic change. A complex relationship between the stylistic feature and social mechanisms emerged, involving multiple, overlapping social structures. The Labovian sociolinguistic approach was especially resonant in this data, as a composer's proximity to certain individuals, groups, and institutions in the social space related to their degree of enthusiasm for metric innovation. In addition, sociolinguistic theories about stylistic variation in human languages were consistent with patterns in this data set. Finally, a descriptive title was also a significant explanatory variable, which implicates the Labovian notion of register and the importance that Meyer gave to aesthetic goals in musical stylistic change.

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Social Mechanisms of Musical Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France

Harrison

2021

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“…[4] The historical complexity of the time could have been conveyed, for example, by mentioning not only women's lack of education but also the 1880 Camille Sée law that established state-sponsored secondary education for young women, leading to significant changes by the mid-1890s, including the first female doctors and lawyers. [5] The essay includes discussion of some of Degas's works, and at its conclusion quotes a critic's assertion that Degas was "a feminist" (55). [6] At the very end of his essay the author states that in some ways Degas "transcended the limits of his class and gender" (55) but does not elaborate on this intriguing statement.…”

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Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism

Iskin,

Wolk Rager

2024

NCAW

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In this review, Andrea Wolk Rager addresses the exhibition, and Ruth E. Iskin discusses the accompanying catalogue.One of the most captivating objects on display in the recent exhibition Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism was a small, creased, and slightly discolored rectangle of paper, surrounded by a simple gold frame, placed near the threshold between the first and second rooms (fig. 1). This printed sheet of paper was a working document, a personalized lithographic template completed in ink with a careful script, its lower edge unevenly torn and a tiny stray dot of ink near its center. The paper had, at some point, been folded, perhaps to be placed in an envelope or a pocket. Across the top are the words "Melle. Gaubier" and "blanchisseuse de fin" (laundress of fine cloths) surrounded by several

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Something mysterious: Sex education, Victorian morality, and Durkheim's comparative sociology

Pedersen

1998

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France

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Social Mechanisms of Musical Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France

Social Mechanisms of Musical Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France

Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism

Something mysterious: Sex education, Victorian morality, and Durkheim's comparative sociology

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