The longer, more unified piano pieces are conventionally regarded as. Debussy based three compositions on the poems by louys. En utilisant ces derniers, vous acceptez lutilisation des cookies. The purpose is to gain insight into the interdisciplinary collaborations among artists in findesiecle france. Audio recording, debussy, claude, french library of congress.
Gift inscription from the author larry barretto on page preceding halftitle. As edward lockspeiser writes, these songs provide the most moving revelations of the hedonistic, pagan art of debussy, a reminder that the antique grace and splendour of the. Songs of claude debussy volume ii the vocal library hal. Home composers performers instruments genres top 100 info links other help. Actor and ensemble sheet music book by claude debussy 18621918. Unlike the composers of earlier years, debussys works utilize scales containing modal mixture, strings of parallel fifths, and several other previously unorthodox techniques.
Every song cycle presents its audience with a narrative. A major critical edition of important standard repertor j. A symbiotic collaboration between two artists claude debussy and pierre louys with an annotated performance guide and original translations is approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of musical arts department of music jennifer grim, d. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. Many of debussys most famous pieces, such as prelude a lapresmidi dun faune, were. Publication date 1899 topics chansons, songs, for voice, piano, for voices with keyboard, scores featuring the voice, scores featuring the piano, french language collection. Tosh crumb american composer also influenced by debussy.
The texts were those of the wellknown prose poems by pierre louys. Debussy had known pierre louys since 1893, and a deeprooted and fruitful friendship had grown up between them. In may 1897, the magazine limage ordered a song to debussy, and the. We have performed multiple tests on its full text of approximately 19,810, crunched all the numbers for you and present the results below. Debussy, who was louys close friend, set to music three of the poems in 1897. Claude debussy 18621918 was a revolutionary composer who often ignored the musical rules taught to him at the paris conservatory. In 1895, the french translation of the work of a greek poet from the vi. These rather tawdry prose poems record the erotic fortunes of the fictitious arcadian poetess, bilitis, ranging from her pubescent awakening at the hands of a local rustic to more exotic pleasures on the isle of lesbos. To reprint and distribute this authors work for concert programs, cd booklets, etc. Songs of claude debussy volume ii the vocal library. The original bilitis music has typically been disparaged as a rough draft, left in fragments because debussy didnt have enough time to finish it.
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