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Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.
List of 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 complètes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat
The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early
Mélodies 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
Pelléas - Katherine Bergeron
Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, 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 études - 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-François Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae
Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
François de Médicis, Steven Huebner
