Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world / by Snyder, Harvey Lee

Table of Contents: “…A confluence of circumstance (1862-1884) -- Darling of the gods (1884-1887) -- Debussy and the French poets (1880-1891) -- The tyranny of Richard Wagner -- Transitions (1887-1890) -- In the shadow of Eiffel's tower -- New friends, new directions (1890-1893) -- Maeterlinck (1891-1893) -- The Debussy festival (1893-1894) -- Mallarme and the Paris salons (1890-1893) -- The faun -- Melisande (1894-1898) -- Songs of Bilitis (1894-1898) -- Claude in love, or the hearts of artists (1890s) -- Nocturnes (1899-1901) -- Pelleas -- Pelleas and the French spirit -- Women and the sea (1902-1904) -- Ease, unease, disease (1904-1908) -- Debussy and the modern piano -- The sorry, starry stage (1908-1913) -- War and suffering (1913-1916) -- Too many keys (1917-1918).…”
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A kingdom not of this world : Wagner, the arts, and utopian visions in fin-de-siècle Vienna / by Karnes, Kevin, 1972-

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