François de Médicis & Steven Huebner 
Debussy’s Resonance [PDF ebook] 

Some of Debussy’s most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.


The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, more perhaps than that of any of the other pioneers of musical modernism. However rich in itself, his creative output also participated, and continues to participate, in a network of cultural connections, the scope and meaning of which can only be gleaned through multiple interpretive frameworks.
Debussy’s Resonance offers twenty new studies by some of themost active and respected English- and French-language scholars of French music. The book treats a large swath of the composer’s music, from previously unexplored
mélodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet
Jeux and the
Douze Études, and takes into consideration the numerous contexts that helped shape the works and the different ways that musicologists and critics have explained them.


CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Bergeron, Matthew Brown, David J. Code, Mark De Voto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Richard Langham Smith, Mark Mc Farland, François de Médicis, Robert Orledge, Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy


FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at Mc Gill University.

Cuprins

Introduction – Francois de Medicis and Steven Huebner

PART 1. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND EDITORIAL ISSUES

Debussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? – Richard Langham Smith

The
Oeuvres complètes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On – Roy Howat

The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early
Mélodies by Claude Debussy – Denis Herlin

‘Paysage sentimental’: ‘Si doux, si triste, si dormant . . .’ – David Grayson

PART 2. STYLE AND GENRE

The ‘Song Triptych’: Reflections on a Debussyan Genre – David J. Code

Composing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890-1902 – Francois de Medicis

Between Massenet and Wagner – Steven Huebner

Debussy’s Concept of Orchestration – Robert Orledge

Oriental and Iberian Resonances in Early Debussy Songs – Marie Rolf

PART 3. HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICS

Debussy and Japanese Prints – Michel Duchesneau

‘Les sons . . . tournent’: Debussy, the Waltz, and Embodied Hermeneutics – August Sheehy

Secrets and Lies, or the Truth About
Pelléas – Katherine Bergeron

Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, and the Edge of Language – Julian Johnson

PART 4. THEORETICAL ISSUES

Follow the Leader: Debussy’s Contrapuntal Games – Matthew Brown

Debussy’s Absolute Pitch: Motivic Harmony and Choise of Keys – Mark De Voto

Debussy’s G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the
Suite bergamasque to the
Douze études – Boyd Pomeroy

The Games of
Jeux – Mark Mc Farland

PART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION

Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 – Jocelyn Ho

Marius-François Gaillard’s Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy – Caroline Rae

Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France – Barbara L. Kelly

List of Contributors

Index

Despre autor

STEVEN HUEBNER is the James Mc Gill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, Mc Gill University, Quebec, Canada.