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Many music scholars share a belief in a deep-seated connection between music and language. This belief underlies the exploration of homologies between musical and linguistic structures that have been an important area of study within our field. In recent years, however, a number of scholars have been considering larger units of musical structure, taking as their model not the syntactic structure of the sentence, but rather the organizational structure of whole narrative texts. One goal of narratology is to investigate the ways that events experienced separately are comprehended as a unified whole. Because of its attention to the interplay of schema-driven and data-driven perception, narrative theory is suggestive of an approach to the study of the early post-tonal repertoire, music that involves both tonal configurations and atonal, "intra-opus" processes. / Debussy's late works, which include the Etudes and the three Sonatas, exhibit a distinct style which combines elements of late nineteenth-century chromaticism with atonal features, innovative formal structures and new pitch resources. This study begins with the assumption that the large-scale tonal structure of most nineteenth-century instrumental music is analogous to the "plot" of a classical narrative text; in contrast, Debussy's quasi-tonal structures represent alternatives to that classical narrative syntax. I view Debussy's innovative musical language as a departure from a prevailing "narrative code," which is embodied in the works of composers like Wagner, and dominated by notions of tension and resolution, tonal departure and return, and monumental formal structures. In contrast to this tonal idiom, Debussy's late works exhibit other modes of organization which can be more accurately modeled using alternative story-types. The alternative narrative models I invoke come out of two main research areas: studies on the development of story-telling ability in children, and studies of the spatial and temporal relationships exhibited in the early silent cinema. Throughout this study I attempt to contextualize the array of narrative strategies manifested in Debussy's music within the general cultural reorientations of the early twentieth century that we identify as Modernism.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1935. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-v at end).

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University.

abstract: Musical Impressionism has been most significantly reflected through the works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). These two key figures exhibit the essence of this art and their piano music remains substantial, influential, and frequently assigned and played today. Nevertheless, from a pedagogical perspective, important factors required in achieving a successful performance of Debussy and Ravel's piano music--delicate tone production, independent voicing, complicated rhythm, sensitive pedaling, and a knowledgeable view of Impressionism--are musically and technically beyond the limit of early advanced students. This study provides a collection of short piano pieces by nine lesser-known European and American composers--Edward MacDowell (1861-1908), Charles Griffes (1884-1920), Marion Bauer (1887-1955), Cyril Scott (1879-1970), Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Selim Palmgren (1878-1951), Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) and Federico Mompou (1893-1987). They were influenced by impressionistic aesthetics or composed at one time in an impressionistic manner over a span of their lifetimes and their music provides a bridge to the more advanced impressionistic pieces of Debussy and Ravel for early advanced students. These composers' selected short piano pieces display richly colored sonority through the use of impressionistic techniques such as non-functional harmony (parallel chords and free modulation), exotic setting (e.g. modality, pentatonic and whole-tone scales), ostinato figures, bell-sound imitation, and extended texture. Moreover, personal interpretive elements, such as poetic and folklore references, were incorporated in some piano works of MacDowell, Griffes, Bauer, Scott, and Bax; among them MacDowell and Bax were particularly inspired by Celtic and Nordic materials. Mompou infused Spanish folklores in his individual naïve style. Most importantly, these selected short piano pieces are approachable and attractive to early advanced pianists. These works, as well as other largely undiscovered impressionistic piano character pieces, ought to be a great source of preliminary repertoire as preparation for the music of Debussy and Ravel. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2011

Este trabalho relata a organização do meu processo de aprendizagem motora do Estudo Pour les Octaves de Claude Debussy. Nele, são descritos o planejamento, a implementação e a avaliação da prática através do modelo tripartido de Fitts e Posner (1979). A prática foi organizada da seguinte forma: a peça foi segmentada e foram definidos os movimentos necessários à sua execução através dos ciclos de movimento (PÓVOAS, 1999). O estudo da peça iniciou-se pelos segmentos, os quais foram gradativamente integrados. As sessões de prática foram documentadas através de relatos escritos e gravações em vídeo e algumas foram supervisionadas pela orientadora. Os dados coletados foram avaliados tanto ao longo da implementação da prática, quanto a posteriori, através de uma reflexão retrospectiva do processo.

Este trabalho relata a organização do meu processo de aprendizagem motora do Estudo Pour les Octaves de Claude Debussy. Nele, são descritos o planejamento, a implementação e a avaliação da prática através do modelo tripartido de Fitts e Posner (1979). A prática foi organizada da seguinte forma: a peça foi segmentada e foram definidos os movimentos necessários à sua execução através dos ciclos de movimento (PÓVOAS, 1999). O estudo da peça iniciou-se pelos segmentos, os quais foram gradativamente integrados. As sessões de prática foram documentadas através de relatos escritos e gravações em vídeo e algumas foram supervisionadas pela orientadora. Os dados coletados foram avaliados tanto ao longo da implementação da prática, quanto a posteriori, através de uma reflexão retrospectiva do processo.

Este trabalho relata a organização do meu processo de aprendizagem motora do Estudo Pour les Octaves de Claude Debussy. Nele, são descritos o planejamento, a implementação e a avaliação da prática através do modelo tripartido de Fitts e Posner (1979). A prática foi organizada da seguinte forma: a peça foi segmentada e foram definidos os movimentos necessários à sua execução através dos ciclos de movimento (PÓVOAS, 1999). O estudo da peça iniciou-se pelos segmentos, os quais foram gradativamente integrados. As sessões de prática foram documentadas através de relatos escritos e gravações em vídeo e algumas foram supervisionadas pela orientadora. Os dados coletados foram avaliados tanto ao longo da implementação da prática, quanto a posteriori, através de uma reflexão retrospectiva do processo.