Debussy In Performance

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300076264

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Debussy in Performance by James R. Briscoe Pdf

Claude Debussy, who composed works of major significance in a wide range of musical and theatrical genres, has exerted a fundamental influence on musicians of the twentieth century. This book explores how Debussy's compositions are brought to life in performance, investigating the composer's own expectations, the traditions surrounding the performance of his music, and the internal and contextual evidence that can give insight to performers of his works. Leading international scholars and interpreters of Debussy's music draw on his letters and music criticism as well as on the memoirs of performers close to him to discuss issues of performance forces, tempo and its flexibility, performer license, and the interpretation of expressive indications in the scores. They urge performers to recognize the symbolism and the value of silence in Debussy's work. And they show that it is particularly important to focus on aspects of timbre, voice-leading, and the musical arabesque, together with meter and phrase ambiguities, when playing his music. The book also includes the translation of an article on the opera Pelleas et Melisande In performance by one of Debussy's original conductors, Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, and an interview with the composer-conductor Pierre Boulez on approaches to Pelleas and the orchestral works.

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performance practice (Music)
ISBN : 0300237448

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Debussy in Performance by James R. Briscoe Pdf

Author : Edward Lockspeiser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979-03-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 052122053X

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Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902 by Edward Lockspeiser Pdf

Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521446562

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Debussy by Simon Trezise Pdf

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 : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521460905

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Debussy Studies by Richard Langham Smith Pdf

A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.

Author : Loan Nguyẽ̂n
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042518352

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Performance Discussion of Three Debussy's Piano Preludes by Loan Nguyẽ̂n Pdf

Author : E. Robert Schmitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486172750

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The Piano Works of Claude Debussy by E. Robert Schmitz Pdf

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 : Margery Halford
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739038761

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Debussy by Margery Halford Pdf

This collection of Debussy's popular intermediate pieces includes Clair de lune," "Reverie," "Le petit nègre," the complete "Children's Corner Suite" and other works. The introductory pages discuss symbolist poetry, French Impressionist painters and Debussy's musical style. A variety of photographs taken throughout the composer's life are also included. The Alfred Masterwork Library CD Editions conveniently combine each exceptional volume with a professionally recorded CD that is sure to inspire artistic performances. 64 pages. Pianist Scott Price is the chair of the Piano Department at the University of South Carolina and holds a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Oklahoma. He has given master classes and recitals throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. His recordings are featured in Alfred's Premier Piano Course."

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015018504715

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Claude Debussy by James R. Briscoe Pdf

Author : Marianne Wheeldon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190631222

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Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation by Marianne Wheeldon Pdf

Examines the vicissitudes of Debussy's posthumous reception in the 1920s and '30s, and analyzes the confluence of factors that helped to overturn the initial backlash against his music. Rather than viewing Debussy's artistic greatness as the cause of his enduring legacy, the author considers it instead as an effect, tracing the manifold processes that shaped how his music was received and how its aesthetic worth was consolidated. Speaking to readers both within and beyond the domain of French music and culture, this study enters into a dialogue with research in the sociology of reputation and commemoration, examining the collective nature of the processes of artistic consecration. By analyzing the cultural forces that came to bear on the formation of Debussy's legacy, the author contributes to a greater understanding of the inter-war period - the cultural politics, debates, and issues that confronted musicians in 1920s and '30s Paris - and offers a musicological perspective on the subject of reputation building, to date underrepresented in recent writings on reputation and commemoration in the humanities. This book is an important new study, groundbreaking in its methodology and in its approach to musical influence and cultural consecration.

Author : Lesley A. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317081630

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Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music by Lesley A. Wright Pdf

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions passed down from teacher to student. Themes that emerge demonstrate the importance of editions as a form of communication, the challenges of notation, the significance of detail and of deeper continuity, the importance of performing and teaching traditions, and the influence of cross disciplinary frameworks. A link to a set of performed examples on the frenchpianomusic.com website allows readers to hear and compare performances and interpretations of the music discussed. The volume will appeal to musicologists and analysts interested in performance, performers, students, and piano teachers.

Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521654785

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The Cambridge Companion to Debussy by Simon Trezise Pdf

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 : Claude Debussy,Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457424606

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Preludes, Book 1 by Claude Debussy,Maurice Hinson Pdf

This significant compilation of 12 Preludes represents Debussy's mature writing style and is filled with a great diversity of compositional styles. The music expresses a vast repertoire of emotions, colors and moods. Helpful English translations of French terms as well as Debussy's performance suggestions are included as well as Dr. Hinson's suggestions for performance and an analysis of each prelude.

Author : Léon Vallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001371065

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Claude Debussy, His Life and Works by Léon Vallas Pdf

Author : Roger Nichols,Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521314461

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Claude Debussy: Pelléas Et Mélisande by Roger Nichols,Richard Langham Smith Pdf

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.