Tag: Debussy

Debussy, Bergson and the Music of ‘la duree’


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English | ISBN: 0367479117 | 2024 | 166 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 12 MB
Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy’s music through the lens of Bergson’s philosophical perspective of durĂ©e, revealing his "revolution" in musical time.

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Debussy in Performance


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English | 2000 | ISBN: 0300076266 | PDF | pages: 316 | 32.2 mb
In this book distinguished musicologists and performers explore how the diverse compositions of Claude Debussy are brought to life in performance. The contributors investigate the composer`s own expectations, the traditions surrounding the performance of his music, and the insights that internal and contextual evidence can give to those who would perform Debussy`s works.

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After Debussy Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy


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English | ISBN: 0190066822 | 2020 | 396 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning. Author Julian Johnson argues that Debussy’s music exemplifies this idea, influencing the music of successive composers who took up the mantle of emphasizing sound over syntax, sense over signification. In doing so, this music not only anticipates a central problem of contemporary thought-the gap between language and our embodied relation to the world-but also offers a solution.

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