On the Interpretation of the Melodies of Claude Debussy

Preface by Darius Milhaud.
Introduction by Linda Laurent.

Jane Bathori was a catalyst for as well as interpreter of the works of many French composers. In 1904, she met Claude Debussy, played some of his piano pieces for him and sang several of his songs. Their discussions were the basis for her 1953 book, "On the Interpretation of the Mélodies of Claude Debussy" which she resolved to write "after having heard Debussy's intentions betrayed so many times, and also to encourage singers... to study some of the songs which are not known and are never sung, the excuse being that they are so difficult to interpret" (from Bathori's opening).

CONTENIDO

List of illustrations

Introduction by Linda Laurent
-About the translator
-Translator note

Preface
Chanson de Bilitis (1898)
-La flûte de Pan
-La chevelure
-Le tombeau des Naïades
Fetes galantes (First group, 1892)
-Fantoches
-En sourdine
-Clair de lune
[From Trois mélodies (1891)]
-Le son du cor s'afflige
-L'echelonnement des Haies
Ariettes oubliées (1885-1888)
-C'est l'extase
-Il pleure dans mon coeur
-L'ombre des arbres
-Green
-Spleen
Fetes galantes (second group, 1904)
-Les ingénus
-Le faune
-Colloque sentimental
-Mandoline
Early songs
-Claire de lune (first version, 1882)
-Pantomime (1882)
-Pierrot (1882)
-Apparition (1884)
Rondels de Charles d'Orleans (1904)
-Le temps a laissié son Manteau
-Pour ce que Plaisance est morte
Le promenoir des deux amants (1910)
-La grotte (original title of 1904)
-Crois mon conseil, chère Climène
-Je tremble en voyant ton visage
Cinq poemes de Charles Baudelaire (1889)
-Le balcon
-Harmonie du soir
-Le jet d'eau
-Recueillement
-La mort des amants
Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarmé (1913)
-Soupir
-Placet futile
-Eventail
Ballades de Francois Villon (1910)
-Ballade de Villon à s'amye
-Ballade que feit Villon à la requeste de s
m'ère pour prier Nostre-Dame
-Ballade des Femmes de Paris
Proses lyriques (1893)
-De Rêve
-De Grève
-De Fleurs
-De Soir

Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons