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 Stéphane Mallarmé.
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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 Stéphane Mallarmé.
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The music of Jeux made relatively little impact at the time of its first performance by the Ballets Russes on 15 May 1913. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Claude Debussy, New York, Robert Godet, Henry de Groux, Erik Satie, Camille Claudel, Nationale de France, Debussy Remembered, Henry Wood, Jacques Durand, Pierre Boulez, Marie Rolf, Maurice Maeterlinck, Roy Howat, Emma Debussy, Guilhem de Castro, Pierpont Morgan Library, Cahiers Debussy, Mme de Tinan, Henry Lerolle, Marguerite Long, Diaz de Bivar, Ernest Ansermet, Ernest Chausson, Paul Dukas New!
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The music of Jeux made relatively little impact at the time of its first performance by the Ballets Russes on 15 May 1913. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metronomic indications, les quartes, piano reduction, alexandrine verse, version bars, cor anglais, aux cheveux Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Claude Debussy, New York, Robert Godet, Henry de Groux, Erik Satie, Camille Claudel, Nationale de France, Debussy Remembered, Henry Wood, Jacques Durand, Pierre Boulez, Marie Rolf, Maurice Maeterlinck, Roy Howat, Emma Debussy, Guilhem de Castro, Pierpont Morgan Library, Cahiers Debussy, Mme de Tinan, Henry Lerolle, Marguerite Long, Diaz de Bivar, Ernest Ansermet, Ernest Chausson, Paul Dukas New!
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- Debussy Remembered by Roger Nichols on 11 pages
- Camille Claudel by Reine-Marie Paris on 5 pages
- Erik Satie (The Pocket Archives Series) by Ornella Volta on 4 pages
- Debussy on Music: The Critical Writings of the Great French Composer Claude Debussy (Cornell paperbacks) by Francois Lesure on page 37, and page 44
- Claude-Achille Debussy (Living Masters of Music) by Louise Shirley Liebich on page 147, and page 148
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- The Cambridge Companion to Debussy (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon Trezise on 10 pages
- Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartï¿1/2k: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious by Elliott Antokoletz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Mervyn Cooke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Muse As Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy And Male Creativity in the Romantic And Modern Imagination by Stephen Downes on page 179, and Back Matter
- Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation by Arnold Whittall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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