Monsieur Croche
Title | Monsieur Croche PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Debussy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Debussy PDF eBook |
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.
Claude Debussy
Title | Claude Debussy PDF eBook |
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.
Monsieur Croche
Title | Monsieur Croche PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Debussy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater
Title | Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Debussy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902
Title | Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lockspeiser |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521293419 |
The Tuning of the Word
Title | The Tuning of the Word PDF eBook |
Author | David Michael Hertz |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780809313129 |
David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship between the music and poetry of the Symbolist movement, tracing it from its inception in Baudelaire’s verse and Wagner’s music to its final transformation into Modernism in the works of Schoenberg. Hertz begins by examining the concept of the period, the well-rounded phrase of verse or music, which was attacked first in Wagner’s use of the leitmotif and unusual intervals such as the tritone. Such musical elements created a feeling of emotion directly expressed, unhampered by convention. This approach was further developed by Mallarmé, who stripped his verse of its conventional framework in an attempt to create images of pure emotion. Mallarmé in turn influenced Debussy. Hertz shows that in setting Mallarmés verse, Debussy moved further away from the standard harmonic structures of the nineteenth century, particularly in his use of tonal ambiguity. Hertz explores the aesthetic of the Symbolist movement as embodied in the unique forms that characterized the era, the tone poem and the lyric play. He dem- onstrates the particular importance of Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mé1isande, which was scored by Debussy. A revolutionary work difficult to characterize, it speaks gracefully of the transformation of Romanticism into Modernism. Citing examples of art, literature, and music, Hertz finds ultimately that the Symbolist aesthetic came to encompass the entire artistic world. Only a scholar thoroughly at home in both the literary and musical realms and possessing a sovereign command of the cultural climate and currents of the period would be able to deliver exactly what his subtitle promises: a musico- literary poetics of the Symbolist movement.