Interpretation Of Debussy S Pelléas Et Mélisande And The Story Behind It

Author : Myunghwa Jang,Kim Bo Kyung
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783656150749

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Interpretation of Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande and the Story Behind It by Myunghwa Jang,Kim Bo Kyung Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Musicology, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: In the world of music, Claude Debussy became the foremost composer of the new musical impressionism. His aim was to express "the inexpressible," in a manner that would ultimately reinvent music drama as "drama in music." Through his only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy created a new technique designed to "convey the état d'âme of the characters and the maze of unconscious conflicts between them." Debussy chose to set the poetry of Materlinck's drama, Pelléas et Mélisande, possibly because of the importance of nature within the drama, a quality that appealed to both artists' impressionist in expressing the changing aspects of nature, especially of light. Debussy began composition on the work in August 1893, starting with the climactic love scene in the fourth act. Throughout the process of composition, Debussy worked to create a new original technique away from the prevailing contemporary German and Italian style, although he found it difficult to fight the influence of Wagner. The general subdued character of Debussy's score is evident due to its subtlety, restraint, and understatement, resulting from his radically revised approach to text-setting and employment of the orchestra. The use of aria and recitative in their conventional forms is abandoned. Debussy's vocal line carries the text in long, soft declamation that sets one syllable to one note.

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009306740

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Pélléas & Mélisande: Alladine & Palomides: Home by Maurice Maeterlinck Pdf

Author : Kerry Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351574181

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Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies by Kerry Murphy Pdf

This collection of essays by scholars of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French music has been assembled in homage to the influential and inspirational French musicologist Frans Lesure who died in 2001. Lesure's immense erudition was legendary and spanned music from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Two French composers who were particular foci in his scholarship were Berlioz and Debussy and this collection is based on scholarship around these two composers and the sources, contexts and legacies relating to their work.

Author : Roger Nichols,Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 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

This first comprehensive guide to Debussy's only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande was written by the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera, the authors, together with David Grayson, discuss various aspects of the play. They consider its literary roots, trace its genesis and composition, and illuminate Debussy's compositional strategies. A detailed synopsis of Debussy's musical response to the text forms a central chapter. This is followed by an examination of the symbols and musical motives employed by Debussy as well as an analysis of his themes. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and a discography.

Author : David A. Grayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B4968199

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The Genesis of Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande by David A. Grayson Pdf

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780976103592

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Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

A comprehensive guide featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete newly translated Libretto with foreign language and english side-by-side, an in depth Commentary and Analysis, selected Discogaphy and Videography, and a Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms.

Author : Elliott Antokoletz,Marianne Wheeldon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199837872

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Rethinking Debussy by Elliott Antokoletz,Marianne Wheeldon Pdf

Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic represents the single most powerful influence on international musical developments during the long fin de siècle period. The development of Debussy's musical language and style was affected by the international political pressures of his time, beginning with the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the rise of the new Republic in France, and was also related to the contemporary philosophical conceptualization of what constituted art. The Debussy idiom exemplifies the ways in which various disciplines - musical, literary, artistic, philosophical, and psychological - can be incorporated into a single, highly-integrated artistic conception. Rethinking Debussy draws together separate areas of Debussy research into a lucid perspective that reveals the full significance of the composer's music and thought in relation to the broader cultural, intellectual, and artistic issues of the twentieth century. Ranging from new biographical information to detailed interpretations of Debussy's music, the volume offers significant multidisciplinary insight into Debussy's music and musical life, as well as the composer's influence on the artistic developments that followed. Chapters include: "Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music"; "Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande"; "An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and Money"; "Debussy's Ideal Pelléas and the Limits of Authorial Intent"; "Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist Hearing in the United States"; and more. Rethinking Debussy will appeal to students and scholars of French music, opera, and modernism, and literary and French studies scholars, particularly concerned with Symbolism and theatre. General readers will be drawn to the book as well, particularly to chapters focusing on Debussy's finances, dramatic works, and reception.

Author : Elliot Antokoletz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190282943

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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok by Elliot Antokoletz Pdf

Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) and Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. It also looks at how this language reflects the psychodramatic symbolism of the Franco-Belgian poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, and his Hungarian disciple, Béla Balázs. These two operas represent the first significant attempts to establish more profound correspondences between the symbolist dramatic conception and the new musical language. Duke Bluebeard's Castle is based almost exclusively on interactions between pentatonic/diatonic folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations (including whole-tone, octatonic, and other pitch constructions derived from the system of the interval cycles). The opposition of these two harmonic extremes serve as the basis for dramatic polarity between the characters as real-life beings and as instruments of fate. The book also explores the new musico-dramatic relations within their larger historical, social psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts.

Author : Lawrence Gilman
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293730998

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Debussy's Pelleas Et Melisande, a Guide to the Opera by Lawrence Gilman Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Debussy's Pelleas Et Melisande, A Guide To The Opera: With Musical Examples From The Score Lawrence Gilman G. Schirmer, 1907 Music; Genres & Styles; Classical; History / General; Music / Genres & Styles / Classical

Author : Kate Mosse
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409148036

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The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales by Kate Mosse Pdf

The perfect winter ghost short story collection from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE CITY OF TEARS I hear someone coming. It has happened before. I pause and listen but no longer hear anything. I sigh. As always, hope is snatched away before it can take root. And so then, as always, I am carried back to that first December so very long ago... Rooted in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc, here are tales of ghosts and spirits seeking revenge, grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.

Author : Lawrence Gilman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547240716

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Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande by Lawrence Gilman Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande" (A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score) by Lawrence Gilman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461700791

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek Pdf

This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Author : Roland Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136767692

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Performance Practice by Roland Jackson Pdf

Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

Author : Paul Rosenfeld
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547119289

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Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers" by Paul Rosenfeld. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.