Research Catalog

Title

The music of Claude Debussy / Richard S. Parks.

Author

Parks, Richard S., 1942-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xiv, 366 p. : ill., music; 26 cm.

Summary

A highly sophisticated theoretical-analytical study of Debussy's oeuvre, probably the most influential in modern music. Using set-theoretic and Schenkerian approaches, Parks examines the nature of Debussy's musical medium and resources, and how they are employed to generate his musical surfaces in all their richness and diversity.

Series Statement

Composers of the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Composers of the twentieth century

Subject

• Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 > Criticism and interpretation
• Composers > France > 19th century > Biography
• Composers > France > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 353-358.

Contents

Aspects of tonality. Harmony and voice leading ; Tonality imposed through other means -- The pitch-class set genera. Four genera ; The PC set genera in early works ; The PC set genera in late works ; Complement relations -- Text expression through pitch materials. Pelleas et Melisande ; A survey of text expression in early, middle, and late works -- Aspects of form. Form and proportion ; Morphological forms and proportion ; Kinetic forms -- Aspects of structure in orchestration, meter, and register. Orchestration, instrumental effect, and structure ; Meter ; Register -- Appendix one. List of pitch-class sets with successive-interval arrays (SIAs) and interval vectors (IVs) -- Appendix two. The diatonic genus of PC sets -- Appendix three. The whole-tone genus of PC sets -- Appendix four. The chromatic genus of PC sets -- Appendix five. The octatonic genus of PC sets -- Appendix six. The 9-17/18/19-complex genus of PC sets -- Appendix seven. Durations by common unit for "De l'aube a midi sur la mer".

ISBN

0300044399

LCCN

^^^89031406^

OCLC

• 19388604
• SCSB-10365861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library