Debussy And The Theatre

Author : Robert Orledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521228077
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy and the Theatre written by Robert Orledge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-12-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debussy and the Theatre means, in effect, 'Debussy and Pellias et Milisande', the opera both established Debussy's mature style and changed the course of operatic history.

Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654784
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Debussy written by Simon Trezise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.

Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110856805X
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy in Context written by Simon Trezise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the many dimensions of Debussy's historical significance, this volume provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved composer and considers how social and political contexts shape the way we approach and perform his works today. In short, focused chapters building on recent research, contributors chart the influences, relationships and performances that shaped Debussy's creativity, and the ways he negotiated the complex social and professional networks of music, literature, art, and performance (on and off the stage) in Belle Époque Paris. It probes Debussy's relationship with some of the most influential '-isms' of his time, including his fascination with early music and with the 'exotic', and assesses his status as a pioneer of musical modernism and his continuing popularity with performers and listeners alike.

Author : Michela Niccolai
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503574622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande written by Michela Niccolai and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagement with the Parisian archives has revealed two levels of visual representation: the staging of the première, signed by Albert Carré, and its printed version, including many changes, issued by Durand several years later. The critical edition presented here, based on this latter version, highlights the differences with the 1902 version, involving changes resulting from the publisher's decision to widen the dissemination of Debussy's work, especially in theatres with less advanced lighting technology compared to the Opéra-Comique. The booklet containing the handwritten notes for 'Pelléas et Mélisande', by Albert Carré, is extremely important: the staging contained within the notes, as well as having inaugurated the history of this work, has been in use in the same theatre until 1947. A study of this type that compares visual documents with the musical score, contemporary press reports and iconographic sources, aims to reconstruct the operatic performance as a whole (including the musical text and scenic elements).

Author : Catherine Kautsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442269839
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy's Paris written by Catherine Kautsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debussy’s Paris takes readers on a tour of Belle Époque Paris through detailed descriptions of the city’s delights and the exquisite piano music Debussy wrote to accompany them. Kautsky reveals little known aspects of Parisian life and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole.

Author : François Lesure
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN 13 : 1580469035
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claude Debussy written by François Lesure and published by Eastman Studies in Music. This book was released on 2019 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

Author : Roger Nichols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521314466
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claude Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande written by Roger Nichols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, and considers its literary roots. David Grayson then traces the genesis and composition of the opera, examining also the sketches and rejected versions in order to illuminate Debussy's compositional strategies. A detailed synopsis by Roger Nichols, which considers carefully Debussy's musical response to the text, forms a central chapter. The book then moves on to consider more detailed aspects of the style and language of the opera. The relationship between symbols and musical motives forms the basis of a chapter by Richard Langham Smith, and a subsequent chapter by him considers the themes of darkness and light and the key-schemes used to portray them. Two chapters by Roger Nichols on the various performances since 1902 and on the ideas of interpreters and commentators complete the text. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and a discography.

Author : A. Ackerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289088
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Theatre written by A. Ackerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

Author : Matthew Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198161998
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy's Ibéria written by Matthew Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a study of Debussy's Iberia.

Author : Julian Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190066849
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Debussy written by Julian Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning. Author Julian Johnson argues that Debussy's music exemplifies this idea, influencing the music of successive composers who took up the mantle of emphasizing sound over syntax, sense over signification. In doing so, this music not only anticipates a central problem of contemporary thought--the gap between language and our embodied relation to the world--but also offers a solution. With a readable narrative structure grounded in an impressive body of literature, After Debussy ranges widely across French music, demonstrating the impact of Debussy's music on composers from Fauré and Ravel to Dutilleux, Boulez, Grisey, Murail and Saariaho. It ranges similarly through a set of French writers and philosophers, from Mallarmé and Proust to Merleau-Ponty, Jankélévitch, Derrida, Lyotard and Nancy, and even draws from the visual arts to help embody key ideas. In accessibly tackling substantial ideas of both musicology and philosophy, this book not only presents bold new ways of understanding each discipline but also lays the groundwork for exciting new discourse between them.