Exhibition held November 6, 2007-March 23, 2008, Smart Museum of Art. Sound recording contains works by André Grétry, Clara Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, César Franck, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Varieties of attention : a (mostly) nineteenth century view / Anne Leonard -- Looking and listening in Émile-René Ménard's "Homer" / Martha Ward -- Cham, Daumier, and sky gazing in nineteenth-century Paris / Julia Langbein -- A vision of beauty : Jules-Adolphe Breton's "The song of the lark" / Josephine Landback -- Voices and apparitions in Jules Bastien-Lepage's "Joan of Arc" / Elayne Oliphant -- Pictorially transcribing music : the Wagner lithographs of Henri Fantin-Latour and Odilon Redon / Michael Tymkiw -- Listening with your eyes : "Le petit solfège illustré" and French children's songbooks / Eleanor Rivera -- A certain "Tour d'esprit" : Édouard Vuillard's "The Lerolle salon" -- Checklist of the exhibition -- CD listener's guide.
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