Debussy's Resonance
Published on 31. December 2018
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-1-58046-525-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 melodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet Jeux and the Douze Etudes, 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 DeVoto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Richard Langham Smith, Mark McFarland, Francois de Medicis, Robert Orledge, Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy
FRANCOIS DE MEDICIS is Professor of Music at the Universite de Montreal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at McGill University.
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 melodies of his early years to late pieces such as the ballet Jeux and the Douze Etudes, 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 DeVoto, Michel Duchesneau, David Grayson, Denis Herlin, Jocelyn Ho, Roy Howat, Steven Huebner, Julian Johnson, Barbara L. Kelly, Richard Langham Smith, Mark McFarland, Francois de Medicis, Robert Orledge, Boyd Pomeroy. Caroline Rae, Marie Rolf, August Sheehy
FRANCOIS DE MEDICIS is Professor of Music at the Universite de Montreal. STEVEN HUEBNER is Professor of Music at McGill University.
Reviews / Votes
Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish. * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE * A major contribution to the theoretical study of Debussy's musical structures. The articles, which include fascinating reflections on the rediscovery of early Debussy works and the creation of the complete edition and, most strikingly, a rich and extensive body of essays on the analysis of his music, are at the cutting edge of Debussy scholarship. The volume will become a staple in future work on Debussy. -- Simon Trezise, Trinity College, Dublin Essential reading...The collection brings together many of the foremost figures in Debussy scholarship. A compelling overview of Debussy studies since the 1960s...Several essays...will be valuable resources to performers of Debussy's music. Pianists, in particular, will surely be interested in Jocelyn Ho's fine-grained analyses of Debussy's piano-roll recordings. -- Alexandra Kieffer * NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW * A fascinating panorama of [all-new] studies. [Topics include] Debussy's early years viewed from different angles; [and] the composer's response to the music and artistic movements of his era. The co-editors succeed wonderfully in bringing together in a single book the major research trends that have developed side-by-side for decades. * REVUE BELGE DE MUSICOLOGIE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
29 b/w, 216 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1064 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58046-525-0 (9781580465250)
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François de Médicis | Steven Huebner
Debussy's Resonance
E-Book
12/2018
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Persons
STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds MARIE ROLF is Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY. MARK MCFARLAND is Associate Professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University. Matthew Brown is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
Content
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 completes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat
The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Melodies 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 Pelleas - Katherine Bergeron
Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarme, 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 DeVoto
Debussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze etudes - Boyd Pomeroy
The Games of Jeux - Mark McFarland
PART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION
Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 - Jocelyn Ho
Marius-Francois Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae
Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly
List of Contributors
Index
PART 1. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND EDITORIAL ISSUES
Debussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? - Richard Langham Smith
The Oeuvres completes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat
The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Melodies 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 Pelleas - Katherine Bergeron
Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarme, 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 DeVoto
Debussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze etudes - Boyd Pomeroy
The Games of Jeux - Mark McFarland
PART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION
Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 - Jocelyn Ho
Marius-Francois Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae
Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly
List of Contributors
Index