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Rethinking Debussy (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking Debussy (Hardcover, New)
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Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic
represents the single most powerful influence on international
musical developments during the long fin de siecle period. The
development of Debussy's musical language and style was affected by
the international political pressures of his time, beginning with
the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the rise of the new Republic in
France, and was also related to the contemporary philosophical
conceptualization of what constituted art. The Debussy idiom
exemplifies the ways in which various disciplines - musical,
literary, artistic, philosophical, and psychological - can be
incorporated into a single, highly-integrated artistic conception.
Rethinking Debussy draws together separate areas of Debussy
research into a lucid perspective that reveals the full
significance of the composer's music and thought in relation to the
broader cultural, intellectual, and artistic issues of the
twentieth century. Ranging from new biographical information to
detailed interpretations of Debussy's music, the volume offers
significant multidisciplinary insight into Debussy's music and
musical life, as well as the composer's influence on the artistic
developments that followed. Chapters include: "Russian Imprints in
Debussy's Piano Music"; "Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in
Pelleas et Melisande"; "An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and
Money"; "Debussy's Ideal Pelleas and the Limits of Authorial
Intent"; "Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist Hearing in
the United States"; and more. Rethinking Debussy will appeal to
students and scholars of French music, opera, and modernism, and
literary and French studies scholars, particularly concerned with
Symbolism and theatre. General readers will be drawn to the book as
well, particularly to chapters focusing on Debussy's finances,
dramatic works, and reception.
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