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Debussy and His World /

Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This book captures the complexity of the composer&...

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Otros Autores: Fulcher, Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Evolution
  • Debussy' s Rome Cantatas
  • Debussy, Gautier, and "Les Papillons"
  • Bilitis and Tanagra: Afternoons with Nude Women
  • Beyond the Illusions of Realism: Painting and Debussy's Break with Tradition
  • The Symphony in Debussy's World
  • Speaking the Truth to Power
  • Part II. The Context
  • Debussy, Faun~, and d'Indy and Conceptions of the Artist
  • Debussy, Mallarme, and "Les Mardis"
  • Debussy in Fin -de-Siecle Paris
  • Part. III. Documents
  • Debussy' s Paris Conservatoire Training
  • "e Cas Debussy"<-- Index
  • Notes on the Contributors