Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande - Rilegato

Nichols, Roger; Smith, Richard Langham

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0521307147 ISBN 13: 9780521307147

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Riassunto

The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, and considers its literary roots. David Grayson then traces the genesis and composition of the opera, examining also the sketches and rejected versions in order to illuminate Debussy's compositional strategies. A detailed synopsis by Roger Nichols, which considers carefully Debussy's musical response to the text, forms a central chapter. The book then moves on to consider more detailed aspects of the style and language of the opera. The relationship between symbols and musical motives forms the basis of a chapter by Richard Langham Smith, and a subsequent chapter by him considers the themes of darkness and light and the key-schemes used to portray them. Two chapters by Roger Nichols on the various performances since 1902 and on the ideas of interpreters and commentators complete the text. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and a discography.

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This is the first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's only completed opera, written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. Contains discussion of play's literacy roots, the genesis and composition of the opera, and Debussy's musical responses to the text.

Contenuti:

1. The play and its playwright Richard Langham Smith; 2. The opera: genesis and sources David A. Grayson; 3. Synopsis Roger Nichols; 4. Motives and symbols Richard Langham Smith; 5. Tonalities of darkness and light Richard Langham Smith; 6. Pelléas in performance I - a history Roger Nichols; 7. Pelléas in performance II - ideals and engimas Roger Nichols; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Discography Malcolm Walker.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521307147
• ISBN 13: 9780521307147
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224