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Debussy’s Resonance DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd ii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2222::1100 PPMM Eastman Studies in Music Ralph P. Locke, Senior Editor Eastman School of Music Additional Titles of Interest “Claude Debussy as I Knew Him” and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann Edited by Samuel Hsu, Sidney Grolnic, and Mark A. Peters The Dawn of Music Semiology: Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez Edited by Jonathan Dunsby and Jonathan Goldman Debussy’s Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship Edited by Margaret G. Cobb Translations by Richard Miller Exploration in Schenkerian Analysis Edited by David Beach and Su Yin Mak Formal Functions in Perspective: Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno Edited by Steven Vande Moortele, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, and Nathan John Martin French Music, Culture, and National Identity Edited by Barbara L. Kelly The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition Andrew Deruchie In Search of New Scales: Prince Edmond de Polignac, Octatonic Explorer Sylvia Kahan Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music Edited by Peter Kaminsky Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday Edited by Robert Curry, David Gable, and Robert L. Marshall A complete list of titles in the Eastman Studies in Music series may be found on the University of Rochester Press website, www.urpress.com DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd iiii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2233::5577 PPMM Debussy’s Resonance Edited by François de Médicis and Steven Huebner DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd iiiiii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2233::5577 PPMM The University of Rochester Press gratefully acknowledges generous support from the American Musicological Society and the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM). Copyright © 2018 by the Editors and Contributors All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2018 University of Rochester Press 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.urpress.com and Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-525-0 ISSN: 1071-9989 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Médicis, Franço is de, 1964– editor. | Huebner, Steven, editor. Title: Debussy’s resonance / edited by François de Médicis and Steven Huebner. Other titles: Eastman studies in music ; v. 150. Description: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2018. | Series: Eastman studies in music ; vol. 150 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018046980 | ISBN 9781580465250 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Debussy, Claude, 1862–1918—Criticism and interpretation. Classification: LCC ML410.D28 D394 2018 | DDC 780.92—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018046980 This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd iivv 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2244 PPMM Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 François de Médicis and Steven Huebner Part One: Historiographical and Editorial Issues 1 Debussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? 19 Richard Langham Smith 2 The Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy Thirty Years On 38 Roy Howat 3 The Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Mélodies by Claude Debussy 57 Denis Herlin 4 “Paysage sentimental”: “Si doux, si triste, si dormant . . .” 105 David Grayson Part Two: Style and Genre 5 The “Song Triptych”: Reflections on a Debussyan Genre 127 David J. Code 6 Composing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890–1902 175 François de Médicis 7 Between Massenet and Wagner 225 Steven Huebner DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd vv 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2244 PPMM vi ❧ contents 8 Debussy’s Concept of Orchestration 254 Robert Orledge 9 Oriental and Iberian Resonances in Early Debussy Songs 272 Marie Rolf Part Three: History and Hermeneutics 10 Debussy and Japanese Prints 301 Michel Duchesneau 11 “Les sons . . . tournent”: Debussy, the Waltz, and Embodied Hermeneutics 326 August Sheehy 12 Secrets and Lies, or the Truth About Pelléas 353 Katherine Bergeron 13 Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, and the Edge of Language 366 Julian Johnson Part Four: Theoretical Issues 14 Follow the Leader: Debussy’s Contrapuntal Games 395 Matthew Brown 15 Debussy’s Absolute Pitch: Motivic Harmony and Choice of Keys 419 Mark DeVoto 16 Debussy’s G♯/A♭ Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze études 435 Boyd Pomeroy 17 The Games of Jeux 476 Mark McFarland Part Five: Performance and Reception 18 Debussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 513 Jocelyn Ho DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd vvii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2244 PPMM contents ❧ vii 19 Marius-François Gaillard’s Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy 562 Caroline Rae 20 Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France 581 Barbara L. Kelly List of Contributors 603 Index 607 DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd vviiii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2244 PPMM DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd vviiiiii 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2288 PPMM Illustrations Figure 3.1. L’archet, autograph manuscript (Kunkelmann), title page with inscription. 61 Figure 3.2. Les roses, autograph manuscript (Kunkelmann), m. 17. 65 Figure 3.3. Nuit d’étoiles, title page of the 1882 edition with the dedication to Madame Moreau-Sainti. 66 Figure 3.4. Program of the concert of May 12, 1882. 67 Figure 3.5. L’union littéraire des poètes et des prosateurs, 9e année, no 27 (May 5, 1878). 69 Figure 3.6. Fête galante, title page of the autograph manuscript. 75 Figure 3.7. Le matelot qui tombe à l’eau, transcription of the poetic text by Debussy, sketchbook “croquis musicaux.” 80 Figure 5.1. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, The Wrath of Igagoe. 130 Figure 5.2. Paul Sérusier, “Triptych of Pont-Aven,” otherwise known as La cueillette des pommes. 131 Figure 9.1. Debussy and Stravinsky. 274 Figure 9.2. Arkel. 276 Figure 9.3. “Poissons d’or.” 277 Figure 10.1. A canvas by Jouy, after Jean Pillement. 305 Figure 10.2. Hiroshige, Une pagode dans un parc (A pagoda in a park). 306 Figure 10.3. Hokusai, “The Kitchen.” 316 Figure 10.4. Hiroshige, “Minakuchi Station.” 318 Figure 11.1. Waltz step schema. 335 DDee MMeeddiicciiss..iinndddd iixx 1111//2288//22001188 44::2244::2288 PPMM