Claude Debussy and the Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claude Debussy and the Poets write by Arthur Wenk. This book was released on 1976-01-01. Claude Debussy and the Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Dukas wrote about Debussy that the strongest influence he experienced was that of the poets, not that of the musicians. This book undertakes to demonstrate that thesis by studying Debussy's settings of songs by Banville, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Louÿs, and Debussy himself. A particular insight may be gained in the comparison of six poems by Verlaine set to music by both Fauré and Debussy. The book includes a poetic/musical analysis of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, based on the poem by Mallarmé.
Claude Debussy and Twentieth-century Music
Claude Debussy and Twentieth-century Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claude Debussy and Twentieth-century Music write by Arthur Wenk. This book was released on 1983. Claude Debussy and Twentieth-century Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The thesis of this book may be simply stated: Debussy's importance lies in his contribution to the central issues of twentieth-century music. Debussy's influence was not limited to a few new idioms which lesser composers could imitate. Rather, Debussy's music offered a new way of thinking about music in general. His greatest influence has been not on his immediate contemporaries but on composers since 1945, when a revolution in thinking about musical time permitted a truer evaluation of Debussy's achievement and a new exploration of his tonal resources. The liberation of the musical moment, the new emphasis on timbre, and the concept of rhythm as duration rather than relation, all depend on Debussy's work, as contemporary composers have demonstrated both in their remarks about music and in their interest in reanalyzing Debussy's late music in light of contemporary techniques. Our picture of Debussy has come full circle. Perceived as a radical composer in the 1890s, as a charming, but minor, figure in the decades following his death, Debussy now emerges as a true revolutionary whose subtle overturning of musical conventions has had as great an effect on the music of our time as the more celebrated revolutions of Stravinsky and Schoenberg." --Preface.
Sammlung
Sammlung - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sammlung write by Claude Debussy. This book was released on 1994. Sammlung available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Texts and translation of all Debussy's songs with valuable notes.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claude Debussy write by David J. Code. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Claude Debussy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that shaped his music—and in the process brings to life Debussy’s sardonic personality. Claude Debussy presents an in-depth look at how Debussy’s love for poetry influenced his musical compositions. Code explores both Debussy’s earlier years, filled with student cantatas inspired by Verlaine and Baudelaire, as well as his later works, dominated by nationalistic pieces inspired by French Renaissance poets and composed in the lead-up to World War I. Along the way, Code looks at Debussy’s orchestral compositions and operas, inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck. This book will give readers a fresh way of listening to Debussy’s classic music by offering the most up-to-date critical analysis of the intersection of Debussy’s literary interests and musical compositions and will appeal to any reader with a love of Debussy, as well as modern music, literature, and the arts.
Debussy and the Fragment
Debussy and the Fragment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debussy and the Fragment write by Linda Cummins. This book was released on 2006. Debussy and the Fragment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rather than solid frames, some less than perfect aesthetic objects have permeable membranes which allow them to diffuse effortlessly into the everyday world. In the parallel universes of music and literature, Linda Cummins extols the poetry of such imperfection. She places Debussy's work within a tradition thriving on anti-Aristotelian principles: motley collections, crumbling ruins real or fake, monstrous hybrids, patchwork and palimpsest, hasty sketches, ellipses, truncated beginnings and endings, meandering arabesques, irrelevant digressions, auto-quotations. Sensitive to the intermittences of memory and experience and with a keen ear for ironic intrusion, Cummins draws the reader into the Western cultural past in search of the surprisingly ubiquitous aesthetic of the unfinished, negatively silhouetted against expectations of rational coherence. Theories popularized by Schlegel and embraced by the French Symbolists are only the first waypoint on an elaborately illustrated tour reaching back to Petrarch. Cummins meticulously applies the derived results to Debussy's scores and finds convincing correlations in this chiasmatic crossover.
