Debussy Studies

A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.

Klappentext
This collection of essays on Debussy's life and music is aimed at both the music lover and a specialist readership. Many of the contributors to the current volume have worked on various pieces in the long-overdue complete edition, and the significance of their research is presented here. Topics include an examination of Debussy's working methods, his visual tastes, his reception in England, aspects of performance practice, as well as studies of his libretti and his relationship to the poet Sté phane Mallarmé .

Zusammenfassung
Our knowledge of Debussy's life and music has increased considerably during the last decade or so. In this volume topics include an examination of Debussy's working methods, his visual tastes and his response to literature, his reception in England, as well as aspects of his performance practice.

Inhalt
1. The definition of timbre in the process of composition of Jeux; 2. Waiting for Golaud: the concept of time in Pelléas; 3. Sirens in the labyrinth: amendments in Debussy's Nocturnes; 4. Debussy's piano music: sources and performance; 5. Portrait of the artist as Roderick Usher; 6. The reception of Debussy's music in Britain up to 1914; 7. Debussy and Satie; 8. Semantic and structural issues in Debussy's Mallarmé songs; 9. 'La jeunesse du Cid': a mislaid act in Rodrigue et Chimène?

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