Debussy In Proportion

Author : Roy Howat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311458
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy in Proportion written by Roy Howat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roy Howat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300159773
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of French Piano Music written by Roy Howat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context. Howat explores the musical language and artistic ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing issues. He also relates his four composers historically and stylistically to such predecessors as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, the French harpsichord school, and Russian and Spanish music. Challenging long-held assumptions about performance practice, Howat elucidates the rhythmic vitality and invention inherent in French music. In granting Fauré and Chabrier equal consideration with Debussy and Ravel, he redresses a historic imbalance and reshapes our perceptions of this entire musical tradition. Outstanding historical documentation and analysis are supported by Howat’s direct references to performing traditions shaped by the composers themselves. The book balances accessibility with scholarly and analytic rigor, combining a lifetime’s scholarship with practical experience of teaching and the concert platform

Author : François De Médicis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1580465250
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy's Resonance written by François De Médicis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446563
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debussy written by Simon Trezise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La mer stands at the centre of Debussy's achievement: described by the composer as 'a seascape without figures', it is arguably the greatest and most original French symphony. In this study La mer is considered in the context of Debussy's personal and musical development, and in the French musical renaissance in general, looking back to Cèsar Franck and forward to the orchestral Images and Jeux. The author uses new biographical information and a wide range of sources to reveal the period of La mer's composition as one of intense emotional turbulence. Detailed discussion of performance styles draws on current recordings, and two analytical chapters trace the growth of ideas through the work. Studies of rhythm, motif and tonality show how Debussy generates 'narratives' across the three movements, which give La mer a structural integrity unparalleled in French music at the turn of the century.

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 : Keith Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521015011
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Musical Minimalists written by Keith Potter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.

Author : Roger Nichols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578875
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Debussy written by Roger Nichols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'That great blue Sphinx', Debussy called the sea. Debussy himself was something of a Sphinx: in the early 1890s he was thinking of 'founding a society for musical esotericism', and although, on the surface, most of his music is instantly engaging and accessible, at a deeper level run currents that are dangerous, unpredictable, destructive. In this new biography, Roger Nichols considers the life and music of this seminal figure charting the currents and the whirlpools in which other humans were sometimes unlucky enough to get caught. Debussy's status is such that no modern composer has been able to ignore him, asking, as he does, any number of riddles to which late twentieth-century music is still searching answers.

Author : Paolo Susanni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041580888X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Twentieth-century Tonality written by Paolo Susanni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical repertoire. It does so in a simple, clear, and systematic manner to promote an easily accessible and global understanding of this music. Since the chromatic scale is the primary source for the pitch materials of 20th-century music, common sub-collections of the various modes and interval cycles serve as the basis for their mutual transformation. It is precisely this peculiarity of the non-serialized twelve-tone system that allows for an array of pitch relations and modal techniques hitherto perceived difficult if not impossible to analyze. Susanni and Antokoletz present the principles, concepts, and materials employed for analysis using a unique theoretic-analytical approach to the new musical language. The book contains a large number of original analyses that explore a host of composers including Ives, Stravinsky, Bartók, Messiaen, Cage, Debussy, Copland, and many more, providing insight into the music of the tonal revolution of the twentieth century and contributing an important perspective to how music works in general.

Author : Heath Lees
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754658092
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mallarmé and Wagner written by Heath Lees and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarmé's mission to 're-possess' music on behalf of poetic language. Professor Heath Lees shows that Mallarmé's early knowledge and experience of music was much greater than commentators have realis