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The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians 5 Ed. 2nd, 1904
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1Cucu, Gheorghe
3Cuclin's chamber pieces are closer to Romanian folk-song, though the modal melodies are transformed diatonically. His most brilliant writing is in the suites for solo violin.
5WORKS
6(selective list)
7Operas Soria (madrigal opera, Cuclin), 1911, Traian and Dochia (Cuclin), 1921; Agamemnon (after Aeschylus), 1922, Bellérophon (Cuclin), 1925
8Orch 20 sym 1912 32, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1947 (with lv, chorus), 1948, 1948, 1948, 1949, 1949 (with vv), 1950, 1951 (with solo vv, chorus), 1951, 1952, 1954, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, O nuntă-n Bărăgan [Wedding in the Bărăgan plain], 1944. Rapvodia prahoveană, 1944, Rondo românesc, 1944
9Inst 3 sonatas, vn, pf, 1908, 1923, 1923. 2 pf sonatas, 1909, 1911, 3 str qts, 1914, 1948, 1949, 10 vn suites, 1918-20. Pf Trio, 1926, 6 suites of Romanian dances, pf, 1942
10Vocal Isus înaintea morții [Lord Jesus before death], cantata, 1920, 50 melodii în stil popular românesc, lv, pf, 1923 30. David and Goliath, oratorio, 1928, 25 cântece populare [25 folksongs], lv, pf, 1944, 101 cântece populare, chorus, 1944, Cetatea e pe stâncă [The citadel on the rock], cantata, 1950, 21 coruri (1956)
12Principal publishers ESPLA, Litografia Ministerului Invăţământului, Muzicală
14WRITINGS
15Tratat de estetică muzicală (Bucharest, 1933) one of two readings
16Tratat de estetica muzicală (Bucharest, 1933) one of two readings
17Musique, art, science et philosophie (Prague, 1934)
18Monographs Contribution to a Possible Reform of the Fundamentals of Music, i The Diatonic System, ii The Secondary Functions, iii Gama prin comă, iv Reverse Functions (Bucharest, 1934)
19Le rôle du chant gregorien dans le passé jusqu'à nos jours et du chant byzantin dans l'avenir (Bucharest, 1936)
21BIBLIOGRAPHY
22V Tomescu Drumul creator al lui Dumitru Cuclin [Cuclin's creative path] (Bucharest, 1956)
23Z. Vancea Creaţia muzicală românească (Bucharest, 1968), 293ff
24V Cosma Muzicieni români (Bucharest, 1970), 146ff
26WORKS
27(selective list)
28Choral Ursitoarea [The fate] (trad ), 1907, Mincinosul [The liar] (I. U. Soricu), 1910, Nu pricep, Curată [I cannot understand, Curată], B. chorus, ?1920, Cântările sfintei liturghii [Chants of the holy liturgy], 1920-32, Haz de necaz [Grin and bear it] (trad ), Om fără noroc [The unlucky man] (trad ), Coruri pe teme populare româneşti (1932)
29Solo vocal: Maintenant que je t'ai revue (N Hârjeu), 1910, Monodie (Ronsard), 1910: Cântecul codrului [The song of the woods] (S O Iosif)
30Folksong arrs 12 colinde populare (1924); Colinde populare (1928), 200 colinde populare (1936)
32Principal publishers Dorneanu, Muzicală, Scrisul Românesc, Society of Romanian Composers
34BIBLIOGRAPHY
35F Riegler-Dinu 'Douăzeci de ani de la moartea lui Gheorghe Cucu', Muzica, vn (1952), 79
36N Parocescu Gheorghe Cucu (Bucharest, 1967)
38VIOREL COSMA
40Cucuel, Georges (b Dijon, 12 Dec 1884; d Grenoble, 28 Oct 1918) French musicologist After schooling in Montbéliard and at the Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris he attended the Schola Cantorum and the Sorbonne, where he was a pupil of Rolland and took his doctorate in 1913 with a dissertation on La Pouplinière and 18th-century chamber music, as well as a subsidiary on the 18th-century orchestra He was subsequently given a government grant to do research in Italy on opera buffa, but this was interrupted by the outbreak of war, his conscription and his death from influenza at the Grenoble military hospital He established his reputation as a major scholar of 18th-century music in his many articles, his dissertations and in his book on the origins of French comic opera, all based on thorough knowledge and full of detailed information, expressed with elegance and concision He left an account of 18th-century aristocratic musical life in Italy drawn from documents in Rome, Florence and Naples (Feste musicali italiani del 700) ready for publication at the time of his conscription
42WRITINGS
43'A propos du crescendo', BSIM, vn/2 (1911), 47
44Le Baron de Bagge et son temps Année musicale, i (1911), 145
45Quelques documents sur la librairie musicale au XVIIIe siècle' SIMG xiii (1911 12), 385
46'Jean-Jacques Rousseau a Passy', BSIM, vn/7 8 (1912), 1
47'La critique musicale dans les revues du XVIIIe siècle', Année musicale, ii (1912), 127
48'La musique et les musiciens dans les mémoires de Casanova', Revue du dix-huitième siècle, i (1913), 43, repr as foreword to Mémoires Casanovas, vi, ed R Vezé (Paris, 1922)
49La Pouplinière et la musique de chambre au XVIIIe siècle (diss U of Paris, 1913, Paris, 1913/R1971)
50Etude sur un orchestre au XVIIIe siècle (subsidiary diss , U of Paris, 1913, Paris, 1913)
51'Sources et documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'opera comique', Année musicale, iii (1913), 247 also in Les maîtres de la musique (Paris, 1914)
52'Notes sur la comédie italienne de 1717 a 1789', SIMG, xv (1913 14), 154
53'Le Moyen-Age dans les operas comiques du XVIIIe siècle', Revue du dix-huitième siècle, ii (1914), 56
54Les créateurs de l'opera-comique français (Paris, 1914)
55'Les aventures d'un organiste dauphinois', RdM 1/1 5 (1917 19), 106
56'La vie de société dans le Dauphiné au XVIIIe siècle', Revue du dix-huitième siècle, v (1918), 150 80
57'Les opéras de Gluck dans les parodies du XVIIIe siècle', ReM, iii (1922), no 5, p 201, no 6, p 51
59BIBLIOGRAPHY
60L de La Laurencie 'Georges Cucuel', RdM, 1/1 5 (1917-19), 202
62Cuculion. An alternative English spelling for the Greek koukoulion, the name used in Byzantine chant for the PROOIMION, see also BYZANTINE RITE, MUSIC OF THE, §10.
64Cudworth, Charles [Cyril Leonard Elwell] (b Cambridge, 30 Oct 1908; d Cambridge, 26 Dec 1977) English writer on music. Largely self-taught, he worked in various university departments and libraries from 1930; his musical studies were particularly encouraged by E. J. Dent. He was appointed assistant in the music section of the University Library, Cambridge, in 1943 and librarian of the Pendlebury Library at the
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