Details of Consequence

Details of Consequence examines a trait that is rarely questioned in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. In re-evaluating the status of ornament for French culture, this book investigates how musical and visual expressions of decorative detail shaped widespread discussions on identity, style, and aesthetics.

Gurminder Kaur Bhogal is a musicologist who trained as a pianist at the Royal College of Music, and as a music historian at King's College London, before completing a doctoral degree in music history and theory at the University of Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor in Music at Wellesley College, and has published widely on the music of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Léo Delibes.

- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Ornament and Expression in Music and the Visual Arts
- Chapter 2 - Ornament and the Arabesque: From Line to Melody
- Chapter 3 - Ornament and Virtuosity in French Piano Music
- Chapter 4 - Ornament and Antiquity from Debussy's Arabesque to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé
- Chapter 5 - Ornament and Neo-Primitivism in Le Sacre du Printemps
- Chapter 6 - Ornament and Disenchantment around the First World War
- Bibliography
- Index