The works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) had a major impact on
the music of the 20th century, influencing a range of figures from
Ravel and Stravinsky to Henri Dutilleux and Toru Takemitsu. Less
well known is Debussy's influence on the popular culture of the
period. Matthew Brown shows how Debussy's music has surfaced in an
array of contexts from the film music of the 1940s to the dance
music of the 1990s. It is easy to see how Debussy's impressionist
soundscapes for orchestra such as La Mer and Iberia could be
perfect models for accompaniments to film scenes, but as Brown
makes clear Debussy's music and influence cannot by reduced to
dreamy imitations of Clair de Lune. As he traces the trajectory of
Debussy's stylistic evolution, Brown shows how facets of this style
were reinterpreted in a surprising variety of popular musical
contexts.
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