Antokoletz, Elliott - Rethinking Debussy

Rethinking Debussy brings together leading international scholars in the field to offer new perspectives on the composer, his career, and creativity. Ranging from his earliest musical influences to his posthumous reputation, these ten essays present new insights, challenge existing interpretations, and bring to light recently discovered or published source material.

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CONTENTS

Contributors
Introduction: Debussy's Music and its Contexts
Part I: EARLY ENCOUNTERS
1 Debussy's Rites of Spring - Marie Rolf
2 Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music - Roy Howat
Part II: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PELLEAS ET MELISANDE
3 Melisande's Charm and the Truth of her Music - Jann Pasler
4 Aimer ainsi: Rekindling the Lamp in Pelleas - Richard Langham Smith
5 Debussy's Ideal Pelleas and the Limits of Authorial Intent - David Grayson
6 Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelleas et Melisande - Elliott Antokoletz
Part III: CAREER AND CREATIVITY
7 An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and Money - Denis Herlin
8 Destiny Should Allow Me to Finish It: The Problems involved in the Reconstruction and Orchestration of The Fall of the House of Usher (1908-1917) - Robert Orledge
Part IV: RECEPTION HISTORIES
9 Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist Hearing in the United States - James R. Briscoe
10 Tombeau de Claude Debussy: the Early Reception of the Late Works - Marianne Wheeldon