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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Claude Debussy: Douze études pour piano: Musikalische Poetik eines Anti-Akademikers
Contributor:
JANZ, TOBIAS
Published:
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015
Published in:
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 72 (2015) 1, Seite 55-75
Language:
German
ISSN:
0003-9292
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>The author considers Debussy's twelve etudes for piano as a systematic reflection on the foundations of music and musical composition. For four of the etudes, procedures relating to the artistic de-composition of the foundations of their musical language are discussed; on the basis of these procedures, each etude develops its own distinct formal conception. The line of reasoning used is supported by Slavoj Žižek's thoughts regarding the pre-synthetic imagination and its importance for the development of modern subjectivity. The finding that Debussy's etudes exhibit this process of subjectivation can be understood as a cue for the etudes' place in music history.</p>