DEBUSSY'S PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

About this eBook

Author

Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939

Title

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score

Credits

Produced by David Newman, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition

Subject

Opera

Category

Text

eBook-No.

16488

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16488

Release Date

August 8, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DEBUSSY'S — PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE — Claude Debussy (From the painting by Jacques Blanche)
2. 2.LAWRENCE GILMAN — NEW YORK G. SCHIRMER 1907 — TO THE MEMORY OF GUSTAVE SCHIRMER A MUSIC LOVER OF LIBERAL TASTE AND SENSITIVE APPRECIATION AND AN INFLUENTIAL FORCE IN THE PROMOTION OF THE FINER THINGS OF THE ART TO WHICH HIS LIFE WAS DEVOTED
3. 3.CONTENTS — DEBUSSY'S PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
4. 4.DEBUSSY AND HIS ART
5. 5.ITS QUALITIES
6. 6.ITS ACTION
7. 7.ACT I
8. 8.ACT II
9. 9.ACT III
10. 10.ACT IV
11. 11.ACT V — III — THE MUSIC
12. 12.A REVOLUTIONARY SCORE
13. 13.THE THEMES AND THEIR TREATMENT
14. 14.ACT I — I.THE FOREST — II. FATE — III. MÉLISANDE — IV. MÉLISANDE'S NAÏVETÉ — V. GOLAUD'S LOVE — VI. GOLAUD — VII. PELLÉAS — VIII.
15. 15.ACT II — IX. THE FOUNTAIN — X. AWAKENING DESIRE — XI. VENGEANCE
16. 16.ACT III — XII. NIGHT — XIII. ARDOR — XIV. — XV. — XVI. YNIOD
17. 17.ACT IV — XVII. THE SHADOWS — XVIII. — XIX. — XX. ECSTASY — XXI. RAPTURE
18. 18.ACT V — XXII. PITY — XXIII. SORROW — XXIV. MÉLISANDE'S GENTLENESS — XXV.
19. 19.FOOTNOTES:

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