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Debussy's Resonance Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)

Debussy's Resonance By Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)

Debussy's Resonance by Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)


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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.

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Debussy's Resonance by Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)

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. The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, more perhaps than that of any of the other pioneers of musical modernism. However rich in itself, his creative output also participated,and continues to participate, in a network of cultural connections, the scope and meaning of which can only be gleaned through multiple interpretive frameworks. Debussy's Resonance offers twenty new studies by some of themost active and respected English- and French-language scholars of French music. The book treats a large swath of the composer's music, from previously unexplored melodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet Jeux and the Douze Etudes, and takes into consideration the numerous contexts that helped shape the works and the different ways that musicologists and critics have explained them. CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Bergeron, Matthew Brown, David J. Code, Mark DeVoto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Richard Langham Smith, Mark McFarland, Francois de Medicis, Robert Orledge, Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy FRANCOIS DE MEDICIS is Professor of Music at the Universite de Montreal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at McGill University.

Debussy's Resonance Reviews

Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish. * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE *
A major contribution to the theoretical study of Debussy's musical structures. The articles, which include fascinating reflections on the rediscovery of early Debussy works and the creation of the complete edition and, most strikingly, a rich and extensive body of essays on the analysis of his music, are at the cutting edge of Debussy scholarship. The volume will become a staple in future work on Debussy. -- Simon Trezise, Trinity College, Dublin
Essential reading...The collection brings together many of the foremost figures in Debussy scholarship. A compelling overview of Debussy studies since the 1960s...Several essays...will be valuable resources to performers of Debussy's music. Pianists, in particular, will surely be interested in Jocelyn Ho's fine-grained analyses of Debussy's piano-roll recordings. -- Alexandra Kieffer * NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW *
A fascinating panorama of [all-new] studies. [Topics include] Debussy's early years viewed from different angles; [and] the composer's response to the music and artistic movements of his era. The co-editors succeed wonderfully in bringing together in a single book the major research trends that have developed side-by-side for decades. * REVUE BELGE DE MUSICOLOGIE *

About Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)

STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds MARK MCFARLAND is Associate Professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University, GA. Matthew Brown is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.

Table 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 completes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Melodies 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 Pelleas - Katherine Bergeron Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarme, 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 etudes - 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-Francois Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly List of Contributors Index

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NPB9781580465250
9781580465250
1580465250
Debussy's Resonance by Dr. Francois de Medicis (Royalty Account)
New
Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2018-12-31
640
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