Debussy Studies
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Author | : Richard Langham Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1997-04-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521460903 |
A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.
Author | : François Lesure |
Publisher | : Eastman Studies in Music |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1580469035 |
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.
Author | : Mark DeVoto |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781576470909 |
This new book on Debussy's music comprises analytical studies of individual works not widely examined previously, including the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, La demoiselle élue, Nuages, and Gigues. A discussion of the tonal structure of the first movement of La mer finds new relevance in the overused term symphonic in relation to Debussy's position in the history of French orchestral music. An extensive essay documents Debussy's aural images in his propensity for recycling his own musical ideas and quoting the music of other composers. A final lighthearted chapter, Debussy and Ravel: How to Tell Them Apart, systematically addresses this century-old critics' conundrum.
Author | : François De Médicis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1580465250 |
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.
Author | : Simon Trezise |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521654784 |
Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
Author | : James R. Briscoe |
Publisher | : New York : Garland Pub. |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gillian Opstad |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1783276584 |
Emma Bardac and her relationship with Claude Debussy take centre stage in this insightful exploration of their lives together. The singer Emma Bardac (1862-1934) has often been presented as a woman who ensnared Claude Debussy (1862-1918) because she wanted to be associated with his fame and to live a life of luxury. Indeed, in many biographies and composer-related studies of Debussy, the only mentions that she receives are brief and derogatory. Here Emma Bardac and her relationship with the composer take centre stage. The book traces Emma's Jewish ancestry and her background, the significant role of her wealthy uncle Osiris, her marriage at seventeen to the wealthy Jewish banker Sigismond Bardac, her affair with Gabriel Fauré and her liaison with and subsequent marriage to Debussy. As Gillian Opstad shows, the pressure and stifling effects of domestic life on Debussy's attitude to his composing were considerable. The financial consequences of their partnership were disastrous, and their circle of close friends was small. Emma suffered physically and mentally from the tensions of the marriage, particularly money worries, and the possibility that Debussy was attracted to her older daughter. She considered divorce but supported him through his deepest depression and during the First World War until he succumbed to cancer in 1918. After Debussy's death, Emma felt driven both on his behalf and for financial reasons to further performances of the composer's works and provoked the annoyance of other musicians by having early compositions resurrected, completed and performed. In this engagingly written biography, Gillian Opstad brings to light little-known facts about Emma's background and family, advances new insights into her relationship with Debussy, and provides a glimpse of an early twentieth-century Parisian milieu that experienced wide-spread antisemitism.
Author | : Matthew Brown |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198161998 |
This text offers a study of Debussy's Iberia.
Author | : Edward Lockspeiser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1979-03-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521220538 |
Author | : Stephen Walsh |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1524731935 |
One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. Debussy drove French music into entirely new regions of beauty and excitement at a time when old traditions threatened to stifle it. Yet despite his profound influence on French culture, Debussy’s own life was complicated and often troubled by struggles over money, women, and ill health. Here, Stephen Walsh, acclaimed author of Stravinsky, chronicles both the composer himself and the unique moment in European history that bore him. Walsh’s engagingly original approach is to enrich a lively biography with analyses of Debussy’s music: from his first daring breaks with the rules as a Conservatoire student to his achievements as the greatest French composer of his time.