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Pelleas & Melisande Claude Debussy

Pelleas & Melisande By Claude Debussy

Pelleas & Melisande by Claude Debussy


Summary

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

Pelleas & Melisande Summary

Pelleas & Melisande by Claude Debussy

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.

Pelleas & Melisande Reviews

Brilliantly produced and superb value.' * Sunday Times * All these will provide the new opera-goer with food for thought.' * Daily Telegraph * Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series.' * TLS *

About Claude Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918) is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the twentieth century. Debussy's work often reflected the activities or turbulence in his own life.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Something Borrowed, Something New by Hugh Macdonald A Musical Synopsis by Roger Nichols Maeterlinck and the Theatre by Alan Raitt Profound or Pretentious? by Nicholas John Thematic Guide 'Pelleas and Melisande' by Maurice Maeterlinck English translation by Hugh Macdonald Act One Act Two Act Three Act Four Act Five Bibliography Discography

Additional information

GOR013909079
9780714544137
0714544132
Pelleas & Melisande by Claude Debussy
Used - Like New
Paperback
Alma Books Ltd
2011-02-07
100
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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