Debussy Letters
Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
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Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902
Author: Edward Lockspeiser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979-03-29
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521220538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521654784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
Debussy and His World
Author: Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780691090429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaude Debussy's Paris was factionalised, politicised, and litigious. This text aims to capture the complexity of the composer's restless personal and artistic identity within the context of fin-de-siècle Paris.
Foucault on the Arts and Letters
Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1783485752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of new essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature and aesthetic discourse in the 21st century.
The Exotic In Western Music
Author: Jonathan Bellman
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781555533199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires. In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic themes for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison. The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies.
Music Writing Literature, from Sand Via Debussy to Derrida
Author: Peter Dayan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780754651932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately difficult, despite the recent burgeoning of word and music studies. Peter Dayan contends that the reasons for this difficulty were worked out with extraordinary rigour and consistency in a French literary tradition, echoed by composers such as Berlioz and Debussy, which stretches from Sand to Derrida. Their writing shows how it is both necessary and futile to look for music in poetry, or for poetry in music.
Debussy in Context
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-23
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 110856805X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the many dimensions of Debussy's historical significance, this volume provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved composer and considers how social and political contexts shape the way we approach and perform his works today. In short, focused chapters building on recent research, contributors chart the influences, relationships and performances that shaped Debussy's creativity, and the ways he negotiated the complex social and professional networks of music, literature, art, and performance (on and off the stage) in Belle Époque Paris. It probes Debussy's relationship with some of the most influential '-isms' of his time, including his fascination with early music and with the 'exotic', and assesses his status as a pioneer of musical modernism and his continuing popularity with performers and listeners alike.
Claude Debussy
Author: François Lesure
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1580469035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy. François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in whichhe worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure's book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer's death in 1918. The present English translation and revised edition, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure's numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information oncrucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure's seminal work. Rolf's translation-the first ever-will make Lesure's findings accessible to scholars, musicians, and music lovers in English-speaking lands and around the world. FRANÇOIS LESURE (1923-2001) was the Director of the Music division of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Professor of Musicology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Chair of Musicology at the École pratique des Hautes Études. MARIE ROLF is senior associate dean of graduate studies and professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and a memberof the editorial board for the Ouvres complètes de Claude Debussy.
Debussy's Paris
Author: Catherine Kautsky
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1442269839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaude Debussy’s exquisite piano works have captivated generations with their dreamlike atmosphere and mysterious soundscapes. Written in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, the music creates a soundtrack for Parisians’ enjoyment of such delights as clowns, mermaids, eccentric dances, and the dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque explores how key works reflect not only the most appealing and innocent aspects of Paris but also more disquieting attitudes of the time such as racism, colonial domination, and nationalistic hostility. Debussy left no avenue unexplored, and his piano works present a sweeping overview of the passions, vices, and obsessions of the era. Pianist Catherine Kautsky reveals little-known elements of Parisian culture and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole. Her portrait will delight anyone who has ever been entranced by Debussy’s music or the city that inspired it.
