Afternoon of a faun
Subtitle: how Debussy created a new music for the modern world
By: Harvey Lee Snyder
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781574674491
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Debussy's birth to Wagner's sunset. A confluence of circumstance (1862-1884); title: Darling of the gods (1884-1887); title: Debussy and the French poets (1880-1891); title: The tyranny of Richard Wagner; title: What can be done beyond Tristan? Transitions (1887-1890); title: In the shadow of Eiffel's tower; title: New friends, new directions (1890-1893); title: Maeterlinck (1891-1893); title: The Debussy festival (1893-1894); title: Mallarmé and the Paris salons (1890-1893); title: The faun; title: Mélisande (1894-1898); title: Songs of Bilitis (1894-1898); title: Claude in love, or The hearts of artists (1890s); title: Nocturnes (1899-1901); title: A terrace at the shore of a special sea. Pelléas (1902); title: Pelléas and the French spirit; title: Women and the sea (1902-1904); title: Ease, unease, disease (1904-1908); title: Debussy and the modern piano; title: The last years. The sorry, starry stage (1908-1913); title: War and suffering (1913-1916); title: Too many keys (1917-1918).; title: The last years. The sorry, starry stage (1908-1913); title: War and suffering (1913-1916); title: Too many keys (1917-1918); title: Apendix A. People passing through; title: Appendix B. THe songs of Bilitis; title: Appendix C. Pelléas et Mélisande : synopsis.