Claude Debussy and the poets / Arthur B. Wenk.
TITLE:
Claude Debussy and the poets / Arthur B. Wenk.
Publication Date:
1976
Publication Information:
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,
Physical Description:
x, 345 p. : music.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [319]-340.
Summary:
Paul Dukas wrote about Debussy that the strongest influence he experienced was that of the poets, not that of the musicians. This book undertakes to demonstrate that thesis by studying Debussy's settings of songs by Banville, Verlaine, Baudelaire, MallarmÔe, LouÞys, and Debussy himself. A particular insight may be gained in the comparison of six poems by Verlaine set to music by both FaurÔe and Debussy.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780520028272
General Note:
Includes index.
