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This is the orchestral version made by Henri Busser in1907. The score is an unabridged reprint of the one first issued byDurand et Cie., Paris in 1908. Busser's orchestration is the standardone that has been performed and recorded numerous times over the lastcentury. ... Read more

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25 titles including Arabesque No. 2, Clair De Lune, En Bateau, L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune, Reverie, and Toccata from Pour Le Piano. ... Read more

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An anthology of vivid and revealing memoirs, Debussy Remembered includes recollections from a wide range of Debussy's friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. ... Read more

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Highly recommended book on Debussy
Debussy and Ravel are my favorite composers. I think Debussy was one of the most original composers who ever lived and is on the same level as Bach, Mozart and Chopin. I've read a lot of technical books and well written biographies on Debussy but I never found a book that revealed so much of what he was like from a personal perspective. In Debussy Remembered, Nichols organized a series of quotes by people that knew him both professionally and personally and through this series of interviews I got a real sense of his complexity and idiosyncratic nature. A must read for anyone interested in getting to understand the personal life of this brilliant and most original composer.

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It really brings the composer to life!
I've been researching Debussy's Piano Music as part of my degree and I found this book to be fascinating because it revealed the composer to me in a new light.

It's a completely enjoyable book to read; reliable andrelevant to his music ... Read more

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Features two collections of tranquil music. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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Transcribed for Organ Solo. Level: Intermediate. Complete organ score with pedal score and pipe organ registrations. ... Read more

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Complete harp and keyboard parts to 61 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM! These unprecedented collections give musicians the opportunity to build a personal library of orchestra repertoire at an incredibly low price. The CD-ROM contains the same published parts musicians have been using for many years. If these parts were purchased separately, this collection would easily cost $500 or more! Works are viewable and printable on PC or Macintosh. No access codes or special software is required. The CD uses Abode Acrobat Reader technology, which is included on the CD. This volume includes works by Debussy (La Mer * Prelude to the Afternoon ofa Faun * Printemps * eight more), Mahler (Symphones 1-9 * Kindertotenlieder * Das Klagende Lied * four more), Bruckner (Symphonies 1-9 * Te Deum), Saint-Saens (Carnival of the Animals * Danse Macabre * Symphony No. 3 in C Minor * Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor * three more), Grieg (Piano Concerto in A Minor * Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and 2 * Symphonic Dances * Holberg Suite), Bizet (Carmen Suite No. 1 and 2 * L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 and 2 * one more), and works by Faure, Bruch, Busoni and Reger. ... Read more

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A collection of advanced piano solos by Claude Debussy. ... Read more

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"I am immensely impressed by the scholarship and painstakingly detailed analysis." -- George Jellinek

Song by song, this comprehensive study addresses the works of Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy, four composers who brought to the magnificent poetry of their contemporaries the delicacy, sensitivity, and voluptuousness that characterize French music from 1865 to 1914.

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Complete scores of three orchestral favorites by vastly influential modern composer. Among the most popular, most recorded, most performed works in the repertoire. Innovation, texture, shimmering impressionism. Reprinted from early French editions. New Contents, Glossary of French musical terms.
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Dover's reprints most of the time are outstanding!
Sure, there can occasionally be problems with reprints of older editions (and I've seen some quite poor ones at that, notably with Belwin-Kalmus!);however, this one of Dover (as well as their reprint of the same composer's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande") is not one I'd slight in the least.My copy has very few problems indeed.I recommend this one unreservedly!

The Problem with Reprints
As the earlier reviewer pointed out, this Dover edition is a reprint of the orginal Durand score issued in the first decade of the 20th century. The downside of a reprint edition, especially from French publishers, who had a very distinctive engraving style, is that stems and staves tend to disappear in places, which makes it hard to read. Even so, Dover does a great service by making this masterpiece (I don't use that term lightly!) available at a reasonable price. If you really want to have a clean modern engraving, you'll have to shell out more than $100 for the cloth-bound critical edition.

Dissapointing printing
The music is of course fantastic, but I was dissapointed by the quality of the printing in this volume. Sometimes note stems are virtually nonexistent, and the very small verbal instructions are almost impossible to read. The reason for this is not Dover's fault; it's because this book was printed directly from ancient master plates of the original French editions. In fact, all of Dover's "reproductions of old French editions" series seem to share the same problems. Yet none of Dover's German editions has the problem. Oh well, I guess all I can say is: Let the Buyer Beware.

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1.Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 2.Nocturnes (a).Clouds (b).Festivals (c).Sirens 3.La Mer (a).From Down to Noon on the Sea (b).Wave Play (c).Dialogue of Wind and Sea ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Here, in one volume, are two bodies of work that, perhaps more than any others, reveal the essence of Claude Debussy's extraordinary expressiveness and his innovative gifts for musical imagery. Each book contains 12 preludes for the piano, many of them well known to today's musical audiences because of their great popularity with pianists worldwide. ... Read more

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Debussy: Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2
So far in the playing through this album: an excellent compilation of favorite Debussy piano pieces. Thoroughly enjoyable. Clear pages and easy to read.

good for reading, bad for playing
This is an affordable book that is fine for following along while listening to the music being played by someone else, but very frustrating to play from for oneself.The book does not open flat on a piano stand, and keeps falling when the pages are turned.It needs constant propping up by other books, which interrupts passages that have not been memorized (especially for non-professional pianists like me with a poor memory).The Schirmer editions are a bit better in this regard, and the Peters and Kalmus editions open even more flatly than the Schirmer volumes.I will not buy a Dover piano book again for playing -- only if I intend merely to follow a score while listening. Dover editions are cheap compared with those published by other companies, but you get what you pay for.

Great Composer, Great Value
The Preludes of Debussy are from a different planet.The sounds that he got from the piano are still like no other composer, even after over 100 years since their composition.Dover yet again has printed a most economical edition that is very affordable for the pianist that would like to delve into these gems.Recommended!

Essential pieces for piano mastery
This is one of those sets that I think, if I were stranded on a desert island with a Steinway (and a good piano tuner), I could delve into for years with little other music.
These short pieces are excellent for sight-reading difficult passages with many key changes and unexpected accidentals, for intricate harmony and for expression of mood. The names are evocative of feelings and sights, such as an underwater cathedral, bells in the evening air, wind through heather and the like.

Though short pieces of a few pages, each provides a particular challenge to the piano student, as well as being appropriate for concert encores or intimate playing.
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Composer, pianist, and critic Claude Debussy's musical aesthetic represents the single most powerful influence on international musical developments during the long fin de siècle period. The development of Debussy's musical language and style was affected by the international political pressures of his time, beginning with the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the rise of the new Republic in France, and was also related to the contemporary philosophical conceptualization of what constituted art. The Debussy idiom exemplifies the ways in which various disciplines - musical, literary, artistic, philosophical, and psychological - can be incorporated into a single, highly-integrated artistic conception. Rethinking Debussy draws together separate areas of Debussy research into a lucid perspective that reveals the full significance of the composer's music and thought in relation to the broader cultural, intellectual, and artistic issues of the twentieth century.

Ranging from new biographical information to detailed interpretations of Debussy's music, the volume offers significant multidisciplinary insight into Debussy's music and musical life, as well as the composer's influence on the artistic developments that followed. Chapters include: "Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music"; "Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande"; "An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and Money"; "Debussy's Ideal Pelléas and the Limits of Authorial Intent"; "Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist Hearing in the United States"; and more.

Rethinking Debussy will appeal to students and scholars of French music, opera, and modernism, and literary and French studies scholars, particularly concerned with Symbolism and theatre. General readers will be drawn to the book as well, particularly to chapters focusing on Debussy's finances, dramatic works, and reception. ... Read more

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Petite Piece and Premiere Rhapsodie Part(s) Brand: Alfred Publishing Model Number: 00-K09940 ... Read more

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Not the right one.
I received that same book in the picture but with entirely different music inside- something for french horn?! Fortunately, they took it back and gave me a refund. I'm not sure if I would still trust it enough to order it again. ... Read more

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Lockspeiser, early expert on Debussy
Composer Edward Lockspeiser, who died at age 67 in 1973, writes of Debussy's life then with illustrated scores takes us through Debussy's songs, piano works, chamber works, orchestral works, choral and dramatic works and finally literary works.
Presented from the viewpoint of a musician and composer familiar with Debussy's work and the influences of Debussy's famous musical contemporaries moreso than strictly as a biographer. ... Read more

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French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that shaped his music—and in the process brings to life Debussy’s sardonic personality.

            Claude Debussy presents an in-depth look at how Debussy’s love for poetry influenced his musical compositions. Code explores both Debussy’s earlier years, filled with student cantatas inspired by Verlaine and Baudelaire, as well as his later works, dominated by nationalistic pieces inspired by French Renaissance poets and composed in the lead-up to World War I. Along the way, Code looks at Debussy’s orchestral compositions and operas, inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck.   

This book will give readers a fresh way of listening to Debussy’s classic music by offering the most up-to-date critical analysis of the intersection of Debussy’s literary interests and musical compositions and will appeal to any reader with a love of Debussy, as well as modern music, literature, and the arts.