Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree'
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Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree'

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Debussy, Bergson and the Music of 'la duree'

About this book

Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his "revolution" in musical time.

In fin-de-siècle Paris, Debussy was revolutionizing musical time while Bergson was establishing a metaphysics that challenged the notion of measured or spatialized time. Bergson argued that real time or durée could be grasped only through intuition as opposed to analysis. Debussy eschewed analysis of music, declaring that separating it into parts was better left to engineers. Debussy's music and Bergson's durée were conceived and imagined in the environs of nature. The cycle of seasons, the gracefulness of a blooming flower, or a gentle breeze all suggest continuity, flow, and uninterrupted rhythm. The time of nature is the time of Debussy's music and Bergson's durée. Debussy's use of open forms and Golden Sections create a time world of an expanded present, never ceasing. Bergson's perception of real time is ever-changing, bringing the past into the present and open to unforeseen novelty.

This book is intended primarily for scholars in the disciplines of musicology, music theory, and philosophy and can be used as a text for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in musicology or music theory.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780367479114
eBook ISBN
9781040132937
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Enigmas
  10. 2 A Bergson Perspective for the Analysis of Debussy’s Music
  11. 3 Debussy and Bergson in Paris: Perspectives on Spiritualism, Materialism, Science, and Nature
  12. 4 Bergson, Proust, and Debussy: Correspondences and Distinctions
  13. 5 La Durée: Intuition, Nature, and Fluidity
  14. 6 “The Perception of Change”: An Indivisible Reality
  15. 7 Ondine: The Apparent Paradox of Changeability and Indivisibility
  16. 8 Evoking Ancient Memories
  17. 9 Humor and the Living
  18. 10 Debussy’s Egypt: Stasis and Mobility in Canope
  19. 11 Debussy’s Music, Bergson’s La Durée: The Act of Creation in Painting
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index