Debussy's Resonance
- Editor: Huebner, Steven
- Editor: Médicis, François de
Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish
Debussy's Resonance
- Editor: Huebner, Steven
- Editor: Médicis, François de
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Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish
About
The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, more perhaps than that of any of the other pioneers of musical modernism. However rich in itself, his creative output also participated,and continues to participate, in a network of cultural connections, the scope and meaning of which can only be gleaned through multiple interpretive frameworks. Debussy's Resonance offers twenty new studies by some of themost active and respected English- and French-language scholars of French music. The book treats a large swath of the composer's music, from previously unexplored mélodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet Jeux and the Douze Études, and takes into consideration the numerous contexts that helped shape the works and the different ways that musicologists and critics have explained them. CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Bergeron, Matthew Brown, David J. Code, Mark DeVoto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Mark McFarland, François de Médicis, Robert Orledge,Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy, Richard Langham Smith FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at McGill University.
Contents
- Introduction - Francois de Medicis and Steven Huebner
- PART 1. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND EDITORIAL ISSUES
- Debussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? - Richard Langham Smith
- The Oeuvres completes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat
- The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Melodies by Claude Debussy - Denis Herlin
- "Paysage sentimental": "Si doux, si triste, si dormant . . ." - David Grayson
- PART 2. STYLE AND GENRE
- The "Song Triptych": Reflections on a Debussyan Genre - David J. Code
- Composing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890-1902 - Francois de Medicis
- Between Massenet and Wagner - Steven Huebner
- Debussy's Concept of Orchestration - Robert Orledge
- Oriental and Iberian Resonances in Early Debussy Songs - Marie Rolf
- PART 3. HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICS
- Debussy and Japanese Prints - Michel Duchesneau
- "Les sons . . . tournent": Debussy, the Waltz, and Embodied Hermeneutics - August Sheehy
- Secrets and Lies, or the Truth About Pelleas - Katherine Bergeron
- Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarme, and the Edge of Language - Julian Johnson
- PART 4. THEORETICAL ISSUES
- Follow the Leader: Debussy's Contrapuntal Games - Matthew Brown
- Debussy's Absolute Pitch: Motivic Harmony and Choise of Keys - Mark DeVoto
- Debussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze etudes - Boyd Pomeroy
- The Games of Jeux - Mark McFarland
- PART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION
- Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 - Jocelyn Ho
- Marius-Francois Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae
- Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly
- List of Contributors
- Index
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Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish
