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Author | : Alexandra Kieffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190847247 |
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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 sensibilité-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.
Author | : Stephen Walsh |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1524731935 |
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One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. Debussy drove French music into entirely new regions of beauty and excitement at a time when old traditions threatened to stifle it. Yet despite his profound influence on French culture, Debussy’s own life was complicated and often troubled by struggles over money, women, and ill health. Here, Stephen Walsh, acclaimed author of Stravinsky, chronicles both the composer himself and the unique moment in European history that bore him. Walsh’s engagingly original approach is to enrich a lively biography with analyses of Debussy’s music: from his first daring breaks with the rules as a Conservatoire student to his achievements as the greatest French composer of his time.
Author | : François De Médicis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1580465250 |
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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.
Author | : Roy Howat |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521311458 |
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An analysis that accounts precisely for the nature of Debussy's musical forms and how forms of different works are related. Geometric systems found here throw new light on Debussy's intense interest in the other arts and provide links with artists he admired in other fields.
Author | : François Lesure |
Publisher | : Eastman Studies in Music |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1580469035 |
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English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.
Author | : Gurminder Kaur Bhogal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190696060 |
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Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural, and analytical investigation of the French composer's famous composition for piano. Author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal explores why, over any other piece in Debussy's repertoire for piano, Clair de Lune achieved stardom in the decades following the composer's death, and how, as the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque, it managed to almost fully eclipse the other movements. Drawing on a broad range of excerpts from classical and popular music, commercials, film, and video games, Bhogal examines the various ways in which listeners have engaged with the piece. She also places it in its proper artistic context, through analysis alongside the poetry of Paul Verlaine and the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau. A wide range of aural, visual, and video examples energize the narrative, and demonstrate how Clair de Lune has come to achieve an iconic status within and beyond Debussy's oeuvre.
Author | : Eric Frederick Jensen |
Publisher | : Master Musicians |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199730059 |
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Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its appeal. In this authoritative biography, author Eric Frederick Jensen brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy's compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence. With separate, chronological sections on his life and music, Debussy is accessible to the general reader who wishes to focus on his life and personality, while providing detailed discussion of the music to musicians and students.
Author | : Paul Roberts |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Claude Debussy. 20th Century Composers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An intimate biography of this innovative and troubled composer.
Author | : E. Robert Schmitz |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486172759 |
Download The Piano Works of Claude Debussy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Part biography, part criticism, and part analysis, this fascinating study of one of music's greatest geniuses is above all an authoritative commentary on the entire corpus of Debussy's work for solo piano. Includes 21 illustrations.
Author | : Gillian Opstad |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1783276584 |
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Emma Bardac and her relationship with Claude Debussy take centre stage in this insightful exploration of their lives together. The singer Emma Bardac (1862-1934) has often been presented as a woman who ensnared Claude Debussy (1862-1918) because she wanted to be associated with his fame and to live a life of luxury. Indeed, in many biographies and composer-related studies of Debussy, the only mentions that she receives are brief and derogatory. Here Emma Bardac and her relationship with the composer take centre stage. The book traces Emma's Jewish ancestry and her background, the significant role of her wealthy uncle Osiris, her marriage at seventeen to the wealthy Jewish banker Sigismond Bardac, her affair with Gabriel Fauré and her liaison with and subsequent marriage to Debussy. As Gillian Opstad shows, the pressure and stifling effects of domestic life on Debussy's attitude to his composing were considerable. The financial consequences of their partnership were disastrous, and their circle of close friends was small. Emma suffered physically and mentally from the tensions of the marriage, particularly money worries, and the possibility that Debussy was attracted to her older daughter. She considered divorce but supported him through his deepest depression and during the First World War until he succumbed to cancer in 1918. After Debussy's death, Emma felt driven both on his behalf and for financial reasons to further performances of the composer's works and provoked the annoyance of other musicians by having early compositions resurrected, completed and performed. In this engagingly written biography, Gillian Opstad brings to light little-known facts about Emma's background and family, advances new insights into her relationship with Debussy, and provides a glimpse of an early twentieth-century Parisian milieu that experienced wide-spread antisemitism.