Debussy and the Veil of Tonality

Essays on His Music

Mark DeVoto (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2002
Pendragon Press (Verlag)
9781576470909 (ISBN)

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This new book on Debussy's music comprises analytical studies of individual works not widely examined previously, including the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, La demoiselle élue, Nuages, and Gigues. A discussionof the tonal structure of the first movement of La mer finds new relevance in the overused term symphonic in relation to Debussy's position in the history of French orchestral music. An extensive essay documents Debussy's aural images in his propensity for recycling his own musical ideas and quoting the music of other composers. A final lighthearted chapter, Debussy and Ravel: How to Tell Them Apart, systematically addresses this century-old critics' conundrum.

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Debussy and the Symphonic Principle
Chapter 2. Aural Images: Debussy's Recycling
Chapter 3. From L'Enfant prodigue to La Damoiselle Élue
Chapter 4. Nuages and Reduced Tonality
Chapter 5. ""The Keel Row,"" Gigues and Bifocal Tonality
Chapter 6. Symphonic Tonality in La mer
Chapter 7. The Danses sacrée et profane: Whole-tone and Modal Mapping
Chapter 8. Debussy and Ravel: How To Tell Them Apart
Appendix I. Text of The Blessèd Damozel
Appendix II. Score of Rondel chinois
Bibliography
Index of Examples
General Index

Reihe/Serie	Dimension and Diversity
Verlagsort	Hillsdale
Sprache	englisch
Maße	60 x 90 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-13	9781576470909 / 9781576470909
Zustand	Neuware