Debussy′s Resonance: Eastman Studies in Music

François de Médicis, Steven Huebner

Introduction - Francois de Medicis and Steven Huebner PART 1. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND EDITORIAL ISSUES Debussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? - Richard Langham Smith The Oeuvres complètes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy Howat The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Mélodies by Claude Debussy - Denis Herlin "Paysage sentimental": "Si doux, si triste, si dormant . . ." - David Grayson PART 2. STYLE AND GENRE The "Song Triptych": Reflections on a Debussyan Genre - David J. Code Composing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890-1902 - Francois de Medicis Between Massenet and Wagner - Steven Huebner Debussy's Concept of Orchestration - Robert Orledge Oriental and Iberian Resonances in Early Debussy Songs - Marie Rolf PART 3. HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICS Debussy and Japanese Prints - Michel Duchesneau "Les sons . . . tournent": Debussy, the Waltz, and Embodied Hermeneutics - August Sheehy Secrets and Lies, or the Truth About Pelléas - Katherine Bergeron Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, and the Edge of Language - Julian Johnson PART 4. THEORETICAL ISSUES Follow the Leader: Debussy's Contrapuntal Games - Matthew Brown Debussy's Absolute Pitch: Motivic Harmony and Choise of Keys - Mark DeVoto Debussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze études - Boyd Pomeroy The Games of Jeux - Mark McFarland PART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 - Jocelyn Ho Marius-François Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline Rae Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. Kelly List of Contributors Index