Debussy's instrumental music in its cultural context
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Debussy's instrumental music in its cultural context
(Dimension & diversity / Mark DeVoto, general editor, No.14)
Pendragon Press, c2019
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Bibliography: p. 268-274
Includes index
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Description
Complementing an earlier study on some of Claude Debussy's preludes for piano (in Images and Ideas, Pendragon Press 2010) and a volume focusing on Debussy's songs, cantata, and opera (Debussy's Vocal Music, Pendragon Press 2018), the present book focuses on Debussy's seminal works in the fields of chamber and orchestral music. The compositions analyzed, interpreted, and illuminated in their cultural context are grouped into five chapters, which are characterized by external characteristics but at the same time trace the chronology: I. Two early masterpieces: String Quartet (1893) and Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (1894); II. Three symphonic triptychs: Trois nocturnes (1897-99), La mer. Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (1903-05), and Images pour orchestre (1905-12); III. Concertante works: Danses sacree et profane for harp and strings (1904) and Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and piano (1910); IV. Works conceived for the stage that live on mainly in the concert hall: Le martyre de saint Sebastien (1911), Jeux (1912-13), and Syrinx (1913); and V. The sonatas of the final years: Sonata for violoncello and piano (1915), Sonata for flute, viola, and harp (1915), and Sonata for violin and piano (1917).
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Two Early Masterpieces
String Quartet G minor op. 10 (1893)
Anime et tres decide
Assez vif et bien rythme
Andantino, doucement expressif
Tres modere - Tres mouvemente et avec passion
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (1894)
Mallarme's Poem
Debussy's Response to Mallarme's Poem
Mallarme's Response to Debussy's Music
Staged Dreams, Before and After Debussy
Part II: Three Symphonic Triptychs
Trois nocturnes (1897-99)
Nuages
Fetes
Sirenes (with women's choir)
Internal Coherence in the Three Orchestral "Night Pieces"
La mer. Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (1903-05)
De l'aube a midi sur la mer
Jeux de vagues
Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Complementary Aspects of the Majestic Sea
Images pour orchestre (1905-12)
Gigues
Iberia
I. - Par les rues et par les chemins
II. - Les parfums de la nuit
III. - Le matin d'un jour de fete
Rondes de printemps
A Progression through Geographic and Tonal Spaces
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