Talk:La mer (Debussy)

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Under the section headed,"Interpretation" the second paragraph reads,"As a young boy, Debussy's parents had plans for him to become a navy." 
I'm sure his parents didn't want him to become a one man navy. lol I'm very new to editing Wikipedia so I don't know how to fix this.
One could assume that the author intended to write, "As a young boy, Debussy's parents had plans for him to become a sailor." Or, "As a young boy, Debussy's parents had plans for him to join the navy." 
Since there is a difference in the meanings, I'm not comfortable assuming what the author intended. Kinduvblue (talk) 20:44, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretation Clarification 

message: At the right, there is a facsimile of the 1905 cover; its caption reads [as of 2/3/15] as follows: "Reproduction of Hokusai's Wave."
Granted, the focus of the article is the musical composition, not the score's cover, but given Debussy's wide appreciation of all things Japanese, I think it would be worth writing a better caption for the graphic because the current wording is quite misleading. In fact, on youtube there is a 30-minute lecture devoted to this very subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-1QcCbDyQ
The speaker, Dr. Mary Breatnach of Gresham College, takes a long time getting to her punchline (circa minutes 26-27), so I will try to provide the gist of it here: It's not just that the cover uses the "left half" only of the original (see comment below), but it has been further doctored (very likely at Debussy's own request, Dr. Breatnach argues persuasively) to make it "only about the sea" and not about the terror of the fishermen in their boat which might capsize at any moment.
(Reminder: The Great Wave is one of the "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji." In using its left half only, the cover design also removes Mt. Fuji from the picture. Presumably this would have been part of the same impetus, to keep focused on the ocean itself.)
Long and rambling though it is, Dr. Breatnach's lecture is valuable for giving us a better understanding of both Debussy AND Hokusai at once. In view of the points she makes, I think a better caption for the 1905 cover would be something like this:
"The 1905 cover design which pays homage to Hokusai's 'In the Great Wave off Kanagawa' "  
OR
"The 1905 cover which reproduces the wave (only) from Hokusai's 'In the Great Wave off Kanagawa' "
ETC.
Whatever it is, it is emphatically not a "Reproduction of Hokusai's Wave"!
--Jia Bokang (Conal Boyce)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JiaBokang (talk • contribs) 15:03, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed the caption to this: "Cover of the 1905 edition of La Mer. The illustration is based on Hokusai's Wave." Inelegant, but simple and factual.TheBawbb (talk) 15:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hokusai? not quite 

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message: L. 109 CD 111.  I assume the L stands for a catalog by Lesure - have no idea what CD refers to.  Nowhere in the article does it explain what these numbers represent. - kosboot (talk) 17:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  catalog numbers