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Wheeldon - Debussy's Late Style - 9780253352392 - V9780253352392
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Debussy's Late Style

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Debussy's Late Style explores Claude Debussy's musical responses to World War I. This period of composition encompasses the duration of the war and the last four years of Debussy's life. The works that emerged during this time reflect both wartime events and the composer's self-conscious desire to define his own musical legacy as he felt his life nearing its end. Debussy's complete wartime compositions comprise a small but significant body of works, some little known and some now acknowledged to be among the masterpieces of his career. These include the Berceuse héroïque, En Blanc et noir, the Douze Études, the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253352392
SKU
V9780253352392
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Wheeldon
Marianne Wheeldon is Associate Professor of Music Theory at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the late works of Claude Debussy, musical culture in fin-de-siècle Paris, and Schenkerian analysis.

Reviews for Debussy's Late Style
This is a thorough review of Claude Debussy's later works (1914-18), which today's performers and audiences often overlook. In examining these pieces, Wheeldon (Univ. of Texas, Austin) draws from many resources, including writings by Debussy himself and by various critics and composers (both contemporaneous and later). She reveals how recognition of his own mortality and of the cultural and political ... Read more

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