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Rethinking Debussy /

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This text draws together separate areas of Debussy research into perspective to reveal the significance of the composer's music and thought in relation to the broader cultural, intellectual, and artistic issues of the 20th century.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Antokoletz, Elliott, Wheeldon, Marianne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918 > Criticism and interpretation.
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918 > Critique et interprétation
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918
Debussy, Claude.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Music.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Debussy's Music and Its Contexts
  • Part I: Early Encounters
  • 1. Debussy's Rites of Spring / Marie Rolf
  • 2. Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music / Roy Howart
  • Part II: New Perspectives on Pelléas et Mélisande
  • 3. Mélisande's Charm and the Truth of Her Music / Jann Pasler
  • 4. "Aimer ainsi": Rekindling the Lamp in Pelléas / Richard Langham Smith
  • 5. Debussy's Ideal Pelléas and the Limits of Authorial Intent / David Grayson
  • 6. Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande / Elliott Antokoletz
  • Part III: Career and Creativity
  • 7. An Artist High and Low, or, Debussy and Money / Denis Herlin
  • 8. "Destiny Should Allow Me to Finish It": The Problems Involved in the Reconstruction and Orchestration of The Fall of the House of Usher (1908-1917) / Robert Orledge
  • Part IV: Reception Histories
  • 9. Debussy in Daleville: toward Early Modernist Hearing in the United States / James R. Briscoe
  • 10. Tombeau de Claude Debussy : The Early Reception of the Late Works / Marianne Wheeldon.