Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 27 April 1989
- ISBN 9780521314466
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 216x139x12 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first comprehensive guide to Debussy's opera, by three leading authorities on French music.
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The first comprehensive guide to Pell&&&233;as et M&&&233;lisande, 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. The play and its playwright Richard Langham Smith; 2. The opera: genesis and sources David A. Grayson; 3. Synopsis Roger Nichols; 4. Motives and symbols Richard Langham Smith; 5. Tonalities of darkness and light Richard Langham Smith; 6. Pell&&&233;as in performance I - a history Roger Nichols; 7. Pell&&&233;as in performance II - ideals and engimas Roger Nichols; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Discography Malcolm Walker.
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