Regarding Faure

Regarding FaurA(c) , the result of a 1995 conference on FaurA(c)'s important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned FaurA(c) scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain FaurA(c) (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding FaurA(c) is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding FaurA(c)'s prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a