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Echoes from the East
The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy
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Echoes from the East
The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy
About this book
One of the most admired qualities of Claude Debussy's music has been its seemingly effortless evocation and assimilation of exotic musical strains. He was the first great European composer to discern the possibilities inherent in the gamelan, the ensemble consisting mainly of tuned percussion instruments that originated in Java.
Echoes from the East: The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy argues Debussy's encounter with the gamelan in 1889 at the Paris Exposition Universelle had a far more profound effect on his work and style than can be grasped by simply looking for passages and pieces in his output that sound "Asian" or "like a gamelan." Kiyoshi Tamagawa recounts Debussy's individual experience with the music of Java and traces its echoes through his entire compositional career. Echoes from the East adds a commentary on the modern-day issue of cultural appropriation and a survey of Debussy's contemporaries and successors who have also attempted to merge the sounds of the gamelan with their own distinctive musical styles.
Echoes from the East: The Javanese Gamelan and its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy argues Debussy's encounter with the gamelan in 1889 at the Paris Exposition Universelle had a far more profound effect on his work and style than can be grasped by simply looking for passages and pieces in his output that sound "Asian" or "like a gamelan." Kiyoshi Tamagawa recounts Debussy's individual experience with the music of Java and traces its echoes through his entire compositional career. Echoes from the East adds a commentary on the modern-day issue of cultural appropriation and a survey of Debussy's contemporaries and successors who have also attempted to merge the sounds of the gamelan with their own distinctive musical styles.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Echoes from the East
- Echoes from the East: The Javanese Gamelan and Its Influence on the Music of Claude Debussy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Before Debussy
- Chapter 2
- Debussy, the Age of Empire, and Cultural Appropriation
- Chapter 3
- Early Musical Influences
- Chapter 4
- Debussy and the Gamelan
- Chapter 5
- Gamelan Techniques and Evocations in Works of the 1890s
- Chapter 6
- Piano Works of 1903–1913 and La mer
- Chapter 7
- Theater Pieces, 1911–1913 and Final Years, 1914–1917
- Chapter 8
- Western Composers and the Gamelan since Debussy, I
- Chapter 9
- Western Composers and the Gamelan since Debussy, II
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author