Debussy in Context

doi:10.1017/9781108560986

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Edited by Simon Trezise, Trinity College Dublin

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781108560986
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560986

Subjects:: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
Series:: Composers in Context

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Exploring the many dimensions of Debussy's historical significance, this volume provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved composer and considers how social and political contexts shape the way we approach and perform his works today. In short, focused chapters building on recent research, contributors chart the influences, relationships and performances that shaped Debussy's creativity, and the ways he negotiated the complex social and professional networks of music, literature, art, and performance (on and off the stage) in Belle Époque Paris. It probes Debussy's relationship with some of the most influential '-isms' of his time, including his fascination with early music and with the 'exotic', and assesses his status as a pioneer of musical modernism and his continuing popularity with performers and listeners alike.

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Debussy in Context
pp i-i

Composers in Context - Series page
pp ii-ii

Debussy in Context - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-ix

Illustrations
pp x-x

Contributors
pp xi-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Notes on the Text
pp xv-xv

Abbreviations
pp xvi-xvi

Part I - Paris: City, Politics, and Society
pp 1-56

Chapter 1 - Paris, the City
pp 3-15

Chapter 2 - Paris and the Nation’s Politics
pp 16-24

Chapter 3 - Beyond Paris
pp 25-33

Chapter 4 - Feminine Beginnings: Women’s Critical Perspectives on Debussy (1897–1914)
pp 34-44

Chapter 5 - Consumption and Leisure
pp 45-56

Part II - The Arts
pp 57-114

Chapter 6 - Debussy’s Impressionism Interrogated
pp 59-68

Chapter 7 - Symbolism
pp 69-78

Chapter 8 - Modernism
pp 79-87

Chapter 9 - Wagnérisme
pp 88-97

Chapter 10 - Japonisme, Collecting, and the Expositions Universelles
pp 98-105

Chapter 11 - Cross-Currents in Debussy’s Creative World
pp 106-114

Part III - People and Milieu
pp 115-166

Chapter 12 - Debussy and the Family in Third-Republic France
pp 117-125

Chapter 13 - Romantic Relationships
pp 126-134

Chapter 14 - Relationships with Poets and Other Literary Figures
pp 135-142

Chapter 15 - Publishers
pp 143-149

Chapter 16 - Composers with Whom Debussy Was Associated
pp 150-158

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