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Abstract: In the summer of 1906, Marion Bauer (1882-1955) boarded a ship to Paris to meet with Raoul Pugno, a French pianist and composer. Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was also close with Pugno around the same time. Living with the Pugno family in Gargenville during the summer, Bauer was able to travel to Paris, where she met several important musicians of the time and also nineteen-year-old Boulanger. Pugno, who worked closely with Boulanger, asked her to teach counterpoint and harmony to Bauer. Boulanger agreed and reportedly asked Bauer for English lessons in payment. Both women went on to become important music pedagogues, teaching hundreds of students. Their meeting allowed Bauer and Boulanger to share their ideas on teaching and music with each other. As time passed, the relationship between the two women fade from collective memory, but Boulanger's teaching principles of harmony, hearing, la grande ligne, and music history and literature live on through her students and fellow teachers and composers. Bauer's writings demonstrate similarities to these four key principles. Using Kimberly Francis and Emily Green's understanding of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural production and an analysis of Boulanger's pedagogical principles, I believe that Boulanger's early accumulation of cultural capital and experience was shared with Bauer, assisting Bauer in her future role as American music pedagogue.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Biography
• Pedagogies of Boulanger and Bauer
• Comparison of Bauer's writings and Boulanger's pedagogies and conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Brubaker, Blaine , author

Contributors:

McKnight, Mark, 1951- , major professor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transatlantic Crossings: Nadia Boulanger and Marion Bauer [by Brubaker, B.]

Related Series:

NT thesis, Music (Complete); [volume] 2019

Subjects:

Bauer, Marion, 1882-1955

Boulanger, Nadia

Music teachers

Music — Instruction and study

Music — Instruction and study — Activity programs

Music

Genres:

Academic theses

Dissertation Notes:

M.A. ― University of North Texas, 2019.

General Notes:

Discipline: Musicology.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-40).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (UNT Digital Library, viewed April 28, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 40 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Electronic Thesis

OCLC Numbers:

1269307514