Full Description
Over a century after his death, Debussy remains prominent in concert programmes and international scholarly research. This collection showcases the latest developments in the field. It reflects new preoccupations in aesthetics, using an array of archival sources to piece together Debussy's literary tastes and influences, and drawing on philosophy and contemporaneous ideas about perception and cognition to explore the perceived links between Debussy's music, emotion and nature. The volume is notable for its embrace of the composer's earliest and latest works, which are often seen as unrepresentative of the 'real' Debussy. Its fresh approaches to analysis give new focus, in particular, to rhythm, metre, and the dance. It also reflects the current musicological preoccupation with performance and recording. Debussy Studies 2 ends with an assessment of the ways in which the scholarly debates immediately after his death have continued to influence our understanding one hundred years on.
Contents
Introduction: Debussy Research between Anniversaries Barbara L. Kelly; Part I. Aesthetics: 1. Debussy as Reader Denis Herlin; 2. 'Natural' Music: Debussy and the Intellectual Contexts of Debussysme Alexandra Kieffer; 3. The Evolution of Claude Debussy's Arabesque Idea Stephanie Venturino and Jonathan Dunsby; Part II. Analysis: 4. The Young Debussy Reconsidered through his Early Chamber Music Roy Howat; 5. Debussy and the Dance David Code; 6. 'Rhythmicised Time' in Debussy's Settings of 'En sourdine' Aleksandra [Sasha] Koerbler; 7. Debussy's Violin Sonata and the Legacy of J. S. Bach Matthew G. Brown; Part III. Performance: 8. Manuscript Study and Illuminated Performance: Debussy's Recueil Vasnier Marie Rolf; 9. Performing the Barline in Debussy's Music Simon Trezise; 10. Preparing for Pelléas et Mélisande in Britain: Debussy's International Reputation Barbara L. Kelly; Part IV. Legacy: 11. Collective Remembering/Collective Forgetting: Debussy's Legacy and His Late Works Marianne Wheeldon; 12. Debussy's Influence Since 1945: French Compositional Descendancies Edward Campbell and Caroline Rae; Epilogue '. . . Pour Divers Instruments': Composing après Debussy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries David Code and Drew Hammond.
