Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies: Essays in Honour of François Lesure

Contents

• Contents: Preface: In honour of FranAois Lesure, Jeanice Brooks
• Introduction: Barbara Kelly and Kerry Murphy. Part 1 Berlioz and his Time: Berlioz, Dalayrac and Song, David Charlton
• Mozartian undercurrents in Berlioz
• appreciation, resistance and unconscious appropriation, Benjamin Perl
• 'Oratorium eines Zukunftsmusiker?' The pre-history of L'enfance du Christ, Julian Rushton
• A new source for Berlioz's Les Troyens, Hugh Macdonald
• Berlioz and the piano at the Great Exhibition
• the challenge of impartiality, Kerry Murphy. Part 2 Debussy and His Contemporaries: Taming 2 Spanish women: reflections on editing opera, Richard Langham Smith
• Grieg, the societe nationale, and the origins of Debussy's string quartet, Mike Strasser
• Symbolism as compositional agent in Act IV Scene 4 of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, Marie Rolf
• A sociology of the Apaches: 'Sacred Battalion' for 'Pelleas' Jann Pasler
• Ravel after Debussy: inheritance, influences and style, Barbara L. Kelly
• Afterword: The Origins of the A'uvres completes de Claude Debussy, Roy Howat, Bibliography
• Index.