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Debussy's 'Iberia' Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)

Debussy's 'Iberia' By Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)

Debussy's 'Iberia' by Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)

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Matthew Brown examines Debussy's sketches and drafts to show how the composer wrote one of his last great symphonic scores: Iberia (from Images for orchestra). He describes the work's compositional history, the various intentional goals and historical contraints that guided Debussy's thinking, and some of the technical problems Debussy faced while composing this remarkable score.

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Debussy's 'Iberia' by Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)

For well over a century musicologists have been fascinated by composers' manuscripts and by the insights they might reveal about the nature of musical composition. This book suggests ways in which Debussy's sketches and drafts may be used to explain how he composed one of his last great symphonic scores: Iberia (from Images for orchestra, 1903-10). Part 1 shows how we might understand the process of musical composition as a form of expert problem solving; it describes the compositional history of the work, the various intentional goals and historical constraints that guided Debussy's thinking, and some of the technical problems Debussy faced while composing this remarkable score. Part 2 reconstructs the genesis of each of the three movements in turn.

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Brown's insights into Iberia prove highly illuminating; his book is lucidly written and extremely generous with examples and documentation. It helps to have a score at hand , but even the most involved parts of the analysis flow easily, and one need not be either a specialist in Schenker or sketch studies to follow it. * Notes *

About Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)

Born in London, Matthew Brown studied at the Royal College of Music Preparatory Division and later at King's College London. He pursued a Ph.D. in musicology at Cornell University. From 1983-1986 he was a junior fellow at Harvard University. Since then, he has taught musicology at the Eastman School of Music and theory at Louisiana State University. He has served on the council of the American Musicological Society and the executive board of the Society for Music Theory. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; MUSICAL COMPOSITION AND PROBLEM SOLVING; 1. COMPOSITION HISTORY AND MUSICAL SOURCES; 4. 'PAR LES RUES E LES CHEMINS'; SKETCH STUDIES AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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NPB9780198161998
9780198161998
0198161999
Debussy's 'Iberia' by Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)
Matthew Brown (, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York)
Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2003-10-02
194
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