Debussy's critics : sound, affect, and the experience of modernism
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Debussy's critics : sound, affect, and the experience of modernism
Oxford University Press, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index
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Description
Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. In the midst of a sea change in conceptions of the human person, the critics who wrote about Debussy's music in the Parisian press-continually returning to this music's nebulous relationship to sensation and
sensibilite-attempted to articulate a music aesthetic appropriate to the fully embodied, material self of psychological modernism. While scholarship on French music in this period has often emphasized its affinities with other art forms, such as Impressionist painting and Symbolist poetry, Debussy's Critics demonstrates
that a preoccupation with the specifically sonic materiality of Debussy's music, informed by late nineteenth-century scientific discourses on affect, perception, and cognition, was central to this music's historical intervention. Foregrounding the dynamic exchange between sounds and ideas, this book reveals the disorienting and bewildering experience of listening to Debussy's music, which compelled its early audiences to reimagine the most fundamental premises of the European art-music
tradition.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Wagnerisme and the Aesthetic of Sentiment
Chapter 2: Pelleas et Melisande and the Aesthetic of Sensation
Chapter 3: Marnold: Music as Epistemology
Chapter 4: Laloy: Music as Truth
Chapter 5: Rewriting Modernism
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