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CLAUDE DEBUSSY AND EQUALIZING BALANCES: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S MUSIC WITH EXAMPLES FROM PRELUDES, BOOKS 1 AND 2

SACHS, DANIEL
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1109016801

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2005, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Piano.
This dissertation provides a foundation for a different analytical approach to the music of Claude Debussy. As the musical description of a state of being gains the primary importance over dramatic development, a new structural and developmental coherence emerges in his style. It can be found in the relationship between simultaneously occurring layers of musical elements. These relationships are such that one element establishes a parameter such as harmony, rhythm, and meter, the other contradicts that parameter simultaneously. The two elements do not stand in a conflicting contradiction, but in a fine-tuned balance that defines the musical content of the piece. This approach to analysis of Debussy’s music opens the door to understanding the undercurrent in his music and provides a framework, which unveils the particular in the context of the whole and vice versa. It connects all elements and gives insight into the relationship between the harmonic, the melodic and the formal structure. In that regard this approach can be considered an attempt to apply Schenkerian principles to Claude Debussy’s music. A wide variety of examples from the Preludes and an in-depth analysis of Brouillards and Voiles are included.
Dr. Joel Hoffman (Advisor)
56 p.
Music
Claude Debussy; polyphony; balance

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  • SACHS, D. (2005). CLAUDE DEBUSSY AND EQUALIZING BALANCES: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S MUSIC WITH EXAMPLES FROM PRELUDES, BOOKS 1 AND 2 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1109016801

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • SACHS, DANIEL. CLAUDE DEBUSSY AND EQUALIZING BALANCES: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S MUSIC WITH EXAMPLES FROM PRELUDES, BOOKS 1 AND 2. 2005. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1109016801.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • SACHS, DANIEL. "CLAUDE DEBUSSY AND EQUALIZING BALANCES: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO ANALYSIS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S MUSIC WITH EXAMPLES FROM PRELUDES, BOOKS 1 AND 2." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1109016801

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