Rethinking Debussy

Herausgeber: Antokoletz, Elliott; Wheeldon, Marianne

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Debussy brings together leading international scholars in the field to offer new perspectives on the composer, his career, and creativity. Ranging from his earliest musical influences to his posthumous reputation, these ten essays present new insights, challenge existing interpretations, and bring to light recently discovered or published source material.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780199755646
• ISBN-10: 0199755647
• Artikelnr.: 31891991

Autorenporträt

Elliott Antokoletz, Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, has held two Endowed Professorships. He is the author of six books and editor of several others, as well as the International Journal of Musicology. His theoretical contributions earned him the Béla Bartók Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the Hungarian Government in 1981. Marianne Wheeldon is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Her articles on Debussy have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, Current Musicology, Intégral, Perspectives of New Music, and in several collections of essays. She is the author of Debussy's Late Style (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Introduction: Debussy's Music and its Contexts Elliott
Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon Part I: EARLY ENCOUNTERS 1 Debussy's Rites
of Spring Marie Rolf 2 Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music Roy Howat
Part II: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE 3 Mélisande's Charm and
the Truth of her Music Jann Pasler 4 "Aimer ainsi": Rekindling the Lamp in
Pelléas Richard Langham Smith 5 Debussy's Ideal Pelléas and the Limits of
Authorial Intent David Grayson 6 Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in
Pelléas et Mélisande Elliott Antokoletz Part III: CAREER AND CREATIVITY 7
An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and Money Denis Herlin 8 "Destiny Should
Allow Me to Finish It": The Problems involved in the Reconstruction and
Orchestration of The Fall of the House of Usher (1908-1917) Robert Orledge
Part IV: RECEPTION HISTORIES 9 Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist
Hearing in the United States James R. Briscoe 10 Tombeau de Claude Debussy:
the Early Reception of the Late Works Marianne Wheeldon