Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

Gurminder Kaur Bhogal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-069607-8 (ISBN)

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Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural, and analytical investigation of the French composer's famous composition for piano. Author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal explores why, over any other piece in Debussy's repertoire for piano, Clair de Lune achieved stardom in the decades following the composer's death, and how, as the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque, it managed to almost fully eclipse the other movements. Drawing on a broad range of excerpts from classical and popular music, commercials, film, and video games, Bhogal examines the various ways in which listeners have engaged with the piece. She also places it in its proper artistic context, through analysis alongside the poetry of Paul Verlaine and the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau. A wide range of aural, visual, and video examples energize the narrative, and demonstrate how Clair de Lune has come to achieve an iconic status within and beyond Debussy's oeuvre.

Gurminder Kaur Bhogal is Associate Professor in Music at Wellesley College. She has published widely on the music and aesthetics of composers working in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century (including Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky). Her most recent monograph, Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris, explores the expressive use of decorative gestures in musical and visual contexts.

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Acknowledgments

1. Your Clair de Lune
2. Resonances of Clair de Lune
3. The Suite Bergamasque Takes Shape
4. Poetry, Art, and Music
5. Debussy and the Moon

Additional Sources for Listening and Reading
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Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Oxford Keynotes Series
Zusatzinfo	8 line, 14 halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	208 x 142 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-19-069607-9 / 0190696079
ISBN-13	978-0-19-069607-8 / 9780190696078
Zustand	Neuware