Claude Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande
Claude Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande

Author: Roger Nichols

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-04-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780521314466

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This first comprehensive guide to Debussy's only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande was written by the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera, the authors, together with David Grayson, discuss various aspects of the play. They consider its literary roots, trace its genesis and composition, and illuminate Debussy's compositional strategies. A detailed synopsis of Debussy's musical response to the text forms a central chapter. This is followed by an examination of the symbols and musical motives employed by Debussy as well as an analysis of his themes. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and a discography.

Pelleas & Melisande
Pelleas & Melisande

Author: Claude Debussy

Publisher: Alma Books

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0714544965

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In this guide to Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck's original play is reprinted in full, so that the opera lover can read the scenes that Debussy did not set to music. Hugh Macdonald's much praised English translation is published here for the first time, with an essay uncovering the musical roots of Pelleas and Melisande and illustrating its importance to the music of the twentieth century. Alain Raitt, author of several studies of symbolist writers, evaluates Maeterlinck's status as a dramatist, and Roger Nichols analyses the score. Proust's short pastiche of the opera and Arthur Symons's review of the first English performances challenge us to come to terms with this eternally intriguing masterpiece.Contents: Something Borrowed, Something New, Hugh Macdonald; A Musical Synopsis, Roger Nichols; Maeterlinck and the Theatre, Alan Raitt; Profound or Pretentious?, Nicholas John; Pelleas et Melisande: text by Maurice Maeterlinck; Pelleas and Melisande: English Translation by Hugh Macdonald

Pelléas and Melisande
Pelléas and Melisande

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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This is a book based on Maurice Polydore's play. From 1932, Marie Bernard Maeterlinck was known as Count Maeterlinck. He was a Fleming-born Belgian dramatist, poet, and writer who wrote in French. Charles Alfred Byrne has translated this work. The narrative begins when Golaud discovers Mélisande on the side of a wooded river. He had lost his crown in the ocean but refused to retrieve it. They married, and he soon gained the heart of Arkl, Golaud's grandpa and sick King of Allemonde. He becomes interested in Pelleas, Golaud's brother. They came together by the fountain, where Mélisande had misplaced her wedding ring. Golaud grows suspicious of the lovers, has his son Yniold spy on them, and tracks them down when they are petting, where he murders Pelléas and injures Mélisande. She died later after giving birth to an odd baby girl.

Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande
Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2006-05

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 0976103591

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A comprehensive guide featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete newly translated Libretto with foreign language and english side-by-side, an in depth Commentary and Analysis, selected Discogaphy and Videography, and a Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms.

The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908
The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908

Author: Walter Frisch

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780520078192

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"A book to which I will return for information and instruction every time I wish to talk about, analyze, or write about Schoenberg's compositions of the period 1893-1908."--Ethan Haimo, author of Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey "This is the first book that adequately considers Schoenberg's musical and aesthetic development in what Frisch persuasively identifies as a coherent group of early works. . . . [It] should spark a debate that will strengthen our understanding of Schoenberg's early tonal artistry."--Martha Hyde, author of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Harmony