Debussy On Music

Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Music
ISBN : OCLC:2317983

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Debussy on Music by Claude Debussy Pdf

Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571330188

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Debussy by Stephen Walsh Pdf

Debussy's life is of extraordinary interest because, like Wagner and Stravinsky, he crossed artistic boundaries, associating as much with poets and artists as with musicians. His father was active in the 1871 Paris Commune and the composer's childhood was thus unsettled, his musical preparation erratic, and his subsequent lifestyle somewhat bohemian by the bourgeois norms of the French musical establishment. He never went to a proper school, but was enough of a pianist to enter the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10. Whilst still a student he rebelled against the academy-taught "rules of composition" and constructed a language of his own, in constant rebellion against the heavy Wagnerian influence prevalent at that time.In the early 1900s he worked in Paris as a music critic. His own music during these years includes some of the greatest and most influential works of the early twentieth century: the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, his orchestral masterpieces La Mer and Images, a series of profoundly original piano works (including two books of Préludes), and the ballet Jeux, premiered in Diaghilev's 1913 season just before Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (which Debussy attended). His later years were plagued by the rectal cancer that eventually killed him in 1918. But he continued to compose until 1917This was a period of political and cultural turmoil in French life, the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath, the Dreyfus affair with its religious and military undercurrents, the general instability of the Third Republic, and the First World War. Stephen Walsh's study combines chronological biography with a contextualised picture placing Debussy in the broad artistic and social environment of turn-of-the-century France, making this a significant contribution to the cultural history of the time.

Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822003110749

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Debussy on Music by Claude Debussy Pdf

Collects the essays and reviews of the great French composer, together with interviews with him, in which he comments on the composers and musical events of his day and on his own philosophy of music.

Author : François Lesure,Marie Rolf
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469036

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Claude Debussy by François Lesure,Marie Rolf Pdf

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

Author : François De Médicis,Steven Huebner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781580465250

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Debussy's Resonance by François De Médicis,Steven Huebner Pdf

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 : E. Robert Schmitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Roger Nichols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521578876

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The Life of Debussy by Roger Nichols Pdf

'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 : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Claude Debussy,Margery Halford
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457420244

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An Introduction to His Piano Music by Claude Debussy,Margery Halford Pdf

This collection of Debussy's popular intermediate pieces includes "Clair de lune," "Reverie," "La 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.

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670684

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Images by Paul Roberts Pdf

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.

Author : Margery Halford
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Urtext Piano Reprint,Claude Debussy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684518003

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Images (Books 1 and 2) by Urtext Piano Reprint,Claude Debussy Pdf

Claude Debussy's Complete Images (Books 1 and 2), Urtext Edition. Reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

Author : Roy Howat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521311454

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Debussy in Proportion by Roy Howat Pdf

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 : Eric Frederick Jensen
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199730056

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Debussy by Eric Frederick Jensen Pdf

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 : Kiyoshi Tamagawa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498597159

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Echoes from the East by Kiyoshi Tamagawa Pdf

One of the most admired qualities of Claude Debussy’s music has been its seemingly effortless evocation and assimilation of exotic musical strains. He was the first great European composer to discern the possibilities inherent in the gamelan, the ensemble consisting mainly of tuned percussion instruments that originated in Java. Echoes from the East: The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy argues Debussy's encounter with the gamelan in 1889 at the Paris Exposition Universelle had a far more profound effect on his work and style than can be grasped by simply looking for passages and pieces in his output that sound “Asian" or “like a gamelan." Kiyoshi Tamagawa recounts Debussy’s individual experience with the music of Java and traces its echoes through his entire compositional career. Echoes from the East adds a commentary on the modern-day issue of cultural appropriation and a survey of Debussy’s contemporaries and successors who have also attempted to merge the sounds of the gamelan with their own distinctive musical styles.