Debussy and the Veil of Tonality: Essays on His Music

Book Summary

Edición revisada. Material adicional compilado y editado por Sharon Kanach.

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 discussion of 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.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
Introduction
Debussy and the Symphonic Principle
Aural Images: Debussy's Recycling
From "L'Enfant prodigue" to "La Damoiselle Élue"
"Nuages" and Reduced Tonality
"The Keel Row", "Gigues" and Bifocal Tonality
Symphonic Tonality in "La mer"
The "Danses sacrée et profane": Whole-tone and Modal Mapping
Debussy and Ravel: How To Tell Them Apart

Appendix
Bibliography
Index of Examples
General Index