Music 230

Spectral Music

Week 1: Debussy

 

Read:

Mark DeVoto, "The Debussy Sound: colour, texture, gesture"

Caroline Potter, "Debussy and nature"

Gary Don, "Brilliant Colors Provocatively Mixed: Overtone Structures in the Music of Debussy"

Listen:

"Nuages" (Clouds) from Nocturnes

L'isle Joyeuse

Alexander Street playlist

Scores:

Préludes, Book I, I. Danseuses de Delphes, X. La cathédrale engloutie

Estampes, I. Pagodes

L'isle joyeuse

La mer, movement II, “Jeux de vagues”

Assignment:

Debussy, La mer, movement II, “Jeux de vagues," due Wednesday, Jan. 25

©Amy Bauer 2017

https://eee.uci.edu/17w/04770/

Assignments

  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6
  • Week 7
  • Week 8
  • Week 9
  • Week 10
  • Paper guidelines

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