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6 - Arthur Honegger: Music Critic for Musique et Théâtre (1925–1926)
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- By Pascal Lécroart, Professor of French Literature at the University of Franche-Comté where he is co-coordinator of the Arts and Literature research centre (ELLIADD, EA 4661).
- Edited by Barbara L. Kelly, Christopher Moore
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- Music Criticism in France, 1918–1939
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- Boydell & Brewer
- Published online:
- 17 July 2019
- Print publication:
- 15 June 2018, pp 151-168
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Summary
Arthur Honegger's Écrits forms an impressive volume of over eight hundred pages. Although music criticism per se certainly constitutes one of the most frequently represented genres of writing in the volume, it is not always easy to identify. For example, a text like Je suis compositeur, which comprises over one hundred pages drawn from interviews with Bernard Gavoty, does not fit easily into that category. The remainder of the writings offer considerable generic diversity and include prefaces to various works, responses to surveys and interviews, texts written on the occasion of the première or performance of his works and sometimes open letters. Finally, the volume includes articles written about his colleagues, about their works, or about strictly musical issues, which fall under what is specifically considered ‘music criticism’, even if their content, aside from expressing requisite aesthetic considerations, sometimes includes poetic, historical, sociological, ethical and even political, perspectives. From the outset of his career, Honegger published articles in different newspapers and periodicals including those specialising in music – such as Le Courrier musical, La Revue musicale, La Page musicale, L'Information musicale, Appogiature, Opéra, L'Opéra de Paris, Le Journal des jeunesses musicales and the Journal musical français – as well as publications directed at a broader readership, including Chantecler, Candide, Le Mois and Excelsior.
If music criticism is defined in a narrow journalistic sense (for example, as the activity of reviewing the musical production of various composers in a regular newspaper or periodical column following public performance or diffusion via media such as publication, disc and radio broadcast) then Honegger repeatedly wrote in this genre. Indeed, it is important to recall that he was one of the best-known critics of the weekly newspaper Comoedia, which was revived in 1941 after having been discontinued in 1937. His contribution to this pre-eminent wartime publication comprises more than 230 pages of his collected writings. After the publication of Comoedia was stopped following the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, Honegger wrote less regularly, contributing to weeklies such as XXe siècle and Spectateur between 1945 and 1946. From this extensive written output, in 1948 he published Incantations aux fossiles, an anthology of his articles and contributions.
Bioturbation at the water-sediment interface of the Thau Lagoon: impact of shellfish farming
- Sabine Schmidt, Jean-Louis Gonzalez, Pascal Lecroart, Jacek Tronczyński, Isabelle Billy, Jean-Marie Jouanneau
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- Aquatic Living Resources / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / April 2007
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 25 July 2007, pp. 163-169
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- April 2007
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Quantifying of sediment reworking processes provides new insights into benthic ecosystem functioning of the Thau lagoon, an important European shellfish farming area. In order to evaluate bioturbation rates of surface sediments, profiles of 7Be (half-life: 53 days) and 234Th (half-life: 24.1 days) were measured in cores collected since December 2001 to December 2006. Several sites were selected to sample the diversity of the Thau lagoon: C4, T10, and T11 in the middle of the lagoon, C5, T7 and T8 nearby oyster farming, T2 and T4 in the western edge, T12 in the eastern part closed to industry. 234Th in excess (234Thxs; i.e. supplied to sediment by settling particles) and 7Be both show seasonal variations in activities and in penetration within sediment. Taking into account the moderate sedimentation rates of the Thau lagoon, sites (0.1–0.4 cm per year), the penetration of both short-lived radionuclides to variable depths, from 1 up to 8 cm, indicates efficient biological mixing of upper sediments. Bioturbation rates (Db) to the distribution of excess 234Th (234Pb-Db) and of 7Be (7Be-Db) range between 1 and 35 cm2 y−1, depending on site and season. Surface sediment mixing of the Thau lagoon is primarily controlled by the quality of particle input, i.e. the food supply to the benthic fauna, mainly governed by the hydrological and seasonal conditions. But locally shellfish production is a key parameter that influences bioturbation through biodeposition.