Debussy's resonance /

Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Médicis, François de, 1964- (Editor), Huebner, Steven (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 150.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Franocois de Maedicis and Steven Huebner-- Part Ond. Historiographical and Editorial Issues: 1. Debussy fifty years later : has the barrel run dry? / Richard Langham Smith ; 2. The Euvres compláetes de Claude Debussy thirty years on / Roy Howat ; 3. The Kunkelmann manuscripts : new sources for early Mâelodies by Claude Debussy / Denis Herlin ; 4. "Paysage sentimental" : "si doux, si triste, si dormant..." / David Grayson
  • Part Two. Style and Genre: 5 The "song triptych" : reflections on a Debussyan genre / David J. Code ; 6. Composing after Wagner : the music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890-1902 / Franðcois de Mâedicis ; 7. Between Massenet and Wagner / Steven Huebner ; 8. Debussy's concept of orchestration / Robert Orledge ; 9. Oriental and Iberian resonances in early Debussy songs / Marie Rolf
  • Part Three. History and Hermeneutics: 10. Debussy and Japanese prints / MIchel Duchesneau ; 11. "Les sons...tournent" : Debussy, the waltz and embodied hermeneutics / August Sheehy ; 12. Secrets and lies, or the truth about Pellâeas / Katherine Bergeron ; 13. Vertige! : Debussy, Mallarmâe, and the edge of language / Julian Johnson
  • Part Four. Theoretical Issues: 14. Follow the leader : Debussy's contrapuntal games / Matthew Brown ; 15 Debussy's absolute pitch : motivic harmony and choice of keys / Mark DeVoto ; 16. Debussy's GÄ/A© complex : the adventures of a pitch-class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze âetudes / $r Boyd Pomeroy ; 17. The games of Jeux / Mark McFarland
  • Part Five. Performance and Reception: 18. Debussy and late-romantic performing practices : the piano rolls of 1912 / Jocelyn Ho ; 19. Marius-Franðcois Gaillard's Debussy : controversies and pianistic legacy / Caroline Rae ; 20. Fashioning early Debussy in interwar France / Barbara L. Kelly.