César Franck Monograph - Wensleydale Press

In the past few years a number of articles and books on César Franck’s organ works and their performance have been published. It seemed to the present author, however, that there was still scope for the issue of a monograph dealing with aspects of their performance which might also include some of my personal recollections of Jean Langlais’ teaching as well as as a detailed and comprehensive case study on Franck’s most famous organ work Pièce héroïque.

Contents:

Author’s Note
Reminiscence by the Author
Part A: Performance and Interpretation of César Franck’s organ works
Chapter One: Performance and Interpretation
Chapter Two: Ties and their Notation
Chapter Three: Metronome Markings
Part B: Pièce héroïque: A Case Study
Chapter Four: Analyses
Chapter Five: Trocadero Manuscript
Chapter Six: Textual and Interpretative Comments
Chapter Seven: Programmatic Chart
Chapter Eight: Performances and Reception
Chapter Nine: Study Score of Pièce héroïque
Part C: Appendices
Appendix A: Organists and the Franck Tradition
Appendix B: French Music Terms
Appendix C: Bibliography
Appendix D: Discography
Appendix E: List of Illustrations
Appendix F: Illustrations
Appendix G: Wensleydale Press Publications

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Gerard Carter studied César Franck’s Pièce Héroïque and Chorales nos. 1 and 3 with Jean Langlais, titulaire of the Basilica of Ste Clotilde, Paris, and pupil of Franck’s last pupil Charles Tournemire. He is the published author of numerous books, and of three monographs with co-author Martin Adler, has published articles in the Sydney Organ Journal, and has issued a recording of Chorale no. 3, Pièce Héroïque and Cantabile. He gained his AMusA (Piano) while studying with Eunice Gardiner at the Sydney Conservatorium and is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney. He has been organist at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Ashfield, Sydney, since 2009.

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