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Author Kieffer, Alexandra, 1986- author.

Title Debussy's critics : sound, affect, and the experience of modernism / Alexandra Kieffer
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, music
Summary Following the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902, Debussy's supporters, attempting to explain the opera's novelty, turned away from a music aesthetics that gave primacy to inner emotion and toward an aesthetics oriented instead toward listening, sensation and the materiality of sound. Over the following decade, critics Jean Marnold and Louis Laloy, drawing from a wide swath of early-20th-century intellectual culture that included empirical psychology and post-Helmholtzian acoustics, were particularly influential as defenders of the ostensibly scientifically valid nature of Debussy's innovations as well as his historical importance. This text examines the decline of debussysme as standards of aesthetic value shifted toward the abstract and universal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 11, 2020)
Subject Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 -- Criticism and interpretation
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 -- Appreciation
SUBJECT Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 fast
Subject Music -- France -- 20th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Art appreciation
Music
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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