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	Piano Music
2.	Ballet Music
3.	String Quartets
4.	Solo and Chamber Music
5.	Vocal Music
6.	Orchestral Music

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Welcome to MUSC 726D!

This course will be offered: Summer 2023, 3-Week Session III (3S5),
June 19 - July 7, MTW: 4:10-7:40 pm, B3WEB

Quotable

	It is music alone that has the power to evoke imaginary scenes at will, to conjure up the intangible world of fantasies secretly shrouded within the mysterious poetry of the night, the thousand indistinguishable noises made by moonbeams caressing the leaves.
	– Claude Debussy

Course Description

Analysis of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, style and orchestration in the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel

Prerequisite: Undergraduate tonal harmony and voice leading

Course Documents

1. Syllabus (pdf)
2. Bibliography
3. Works for Study
4. Digital Anthology
• Debussy's Preludes
5. Terms & Concepts
6. Other:
• Listening/Analysis
• Recommended Reading
• Special Topics
  
• Theory
• Analytical Approaches
  
• Style Analysis

Analysis Projects

1. Debussy Project
   
2. Ravel Project
3. Final Project

Asynchronous Thursday Activities

1. Visualizing Debussy & Ravel
   
2. Special Topics
3. Final Presentation Self-Reflection
   

Online Media Resources

1. Barenboim, 5 Minutes on Claude Debussy
2. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Behind the Music
• Debussy's Nocturnes {YouTube}
• Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé {YouTube}
3. British Library
• Arnold Whittall, Tonality in crisis? How harmony changed in the 20th century {British Library}
• Jane Pritchard, Ballet in Paris in the early 20th century {British Library}
4. Christiansen, Earsense: Debussy & Ravel
5. Howat, Fibonacci and the Golden Section {RoyHowat.com} (Howat 1983)
• See also: Ron Knott, Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music
6. Gjerdingen, Child Composers {YouTube} (Gjerdingen 2020)
• Video 16.1: A Melody Harmonized by Claude Debussy {YouTube}
• Video 21.4: Ravel's Analysis of Ravel {YouTube}
• Video 21.5: Imagining Sketches and Drafts for Real Pieces (Ravel's Pavane) {YouTube}
7. Guttman, Classical  Notes
• The Debussy and Ravel String Quartets {Classical Notes}
8. Listening In: Video Essays on Music {YouTube Channel}
• Debussy's Clair de lune, deconstructed {YouTube}
• What links [Hokusai's] ‘The Great Wave’ and Debussy’s ‘La Mer’? {YouTube}
• Ravel's Bolero: Did Neurological Damage Lead To Ravel's Masterpiece? {YouTube}
9. London Philharmonic
• Orchestral score animation of the opening of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune {YouTube}
10. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
• Sound/Stage, The Fairy Garden from Ravel's Mother Goose {YouTube}
11. Malinowski, Music Animation Machine {Musanim.com}
• Debussy, I. Reflets dans l'eau (2011) {YouTube}
• Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, II. Fugue {YouTube}
12. Morgan Library & Museum
• Collection in Focus: Ravel's Bolero {YouTube}
13. Musical Times, Portraits of Debussy
14. Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Live from Royal Festival Hall: RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte {YouTube}
• City of Light: Paris, 1900-1950 {Films}
• Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune {YouTube}
• Comparing Debussy and Ravel {YouTube}
15. Pianist Magazine
• Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Lesson on How to Play [Debussy's] 'Clair de lune' {YouTube}
16. Ross
• The Rest is Noise: Books, articles, and a blog by the music critic of The New Yorker {TheRestIsNoise.com} (Ross 2007)
• The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy {New Yorker} (Ross 2018)
17. Smith College Museum of Art
• Debussy's Paris: Art, Music, & Sounds of the City {Smith}
18. Swingle Singers
• The Swingles - La Cathédrale Engloutie (Debussy Feat. Ward Swingle & John Taylor) {YouTube}
19. Teoria, Web-based analyses by José Rodríguez Alvira
• Debussy's Préludes, Book 1 {Teoria}
• Ravel's String Quartet in F major, I. Allegro {Teoria}
20. Tonebase
• Boris Giltburg teaches you Ravel's "Alborada del gracioso" [from Miroirs] {YouTube}
• Debussy and Ravel on the Threshold of the 20th Century {YouTube}
• Jean-Yves Thibaudet Teaches Debussy's 'Girl with the Flaxen Hair' {YouTube}

Research Tools

1. FindIt @ UofSC
2. Dictionaries: Harvard Dictionary | Grove/Oxford
3. Articles: JSTOR
4. E-books: Ebook Central | EBSCOhost | Hathi Trust
   
5. Scores: IMSLP; Alexander Street; CPDL
6. Recordings: Naxos | Spotify | YouTube
   

Lists of Works

1. Claude Debussy {WP; IMSLP}
2. Maurice Ravel {WP; IMSLP}

Autograph Manuscripts

1. Claude Debussy
• La Mer {Sibley; BnF}
• L'Isle joyeuse {BnF}
2. Maurice Ravel
• Jeux d'eau {BnF}
  
• La Valse {BnF}

BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France

Journals

1. 19th-Century Music {UC Press}
2. College Music Symposium {CMS}
3. Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy {OSU Libraries}
4. Indiana Theory Review {IU Press}
5. Intégral {Rochester.edu}
6. Journal of Mathematics and Music {Taylor & Francis}
   
7. Journal of Music Theory {JMT; JSTOR}
8. Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy {JMTP}
9. Journal of New Music Research {Taylor & Francis}
10. Music Analysis {Wiley; JSTOR}
11. Perspectives on New Music {Website; JSTOR}
12. Society for Music Theory (SMT)
• Music Theory Online {MTO}
• Music Theory Spectrum {Oxford; JSTOR}
• SMT-V: SMT's Videocast Journal
• SMT-Pod: The Society for Music Theory Podcast
13. Theory and Practice {JSTOR}

Main References

See also: BAIN MUSC 726D Bibliography

DeVoto. Mark. 2004. Debussy and the Veil of Tonality: Essays on His Music. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. {GB}

Parks, Richard S. 1989. The Music of Claude Debussy. New Haven: Yale University Press. {GB}

Howat, Roy. 1983. Debussy in Proportion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Kaminsky, Peter, ed. 2011. Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. {GB}

Kelly, Barbara L. 2001. "Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice." Oxford Music Online. {Grove}

Lesure, François and Roy Howat. 2001. Debussy, (Achille-) Claude." Oxford Music Online. {Grove}

Zank, Stephen. 2009. Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. {GB}