Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction: Debussy's Music and its Contexts
Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon

Part I: EARLY ENCOUNTERS
1 Debussy's Rites of Spring
Marie Rolf
2 Russian Imprints in Debussy's Piano Music
Roy Howat

Part II: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
3 Mélisande's Charm and the Truth of her Music
Jann Pasler
4 "Aimer ainsi": Rekindling the Lamp in Pelléas
Richard Langham Smith
5 Debussy's Ideal Pelléas and the Limits of Authorial Intent
David Grayson
6 Music as Encoder of the Unconscious in Pelléas et Mélisande
Elliott Antokoletz

Part III: CAREER AND CREATIVITY
7 An Artist High and Low, or Debussy and Money
Denis Herlin
8 "Destiny Should Allow Me to Finish It": The Problems involved in the Reconstruction and Orchestration of The Fall of the House of Usher (1908-1917)
Robert Orledge

Part IV: RECEPTION HISTORIES
9 Debussy in Daleville: Toward Early Modernist Hearing in the United States
James R. Briscoe
10 Tombeau de Claude Debussy: the Early Reception of the Late Works
Marianne Wheeldon

Notes
Index

About the Author

Elliott Antokoletz, Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas at Austin, has held two Endowed Professorships. He is the author of six books and editor of several others, as well as the International Journal of Musicology. His theoretical contributions earned him the Béla Bartók Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the Hungarian Government in 1981.

Marianne Wheeldon is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Her articles on Debussy have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, Current Musicology, Intégral, Perspectives of New Music, and in several collections of essays. She is the author of Debussy's Late Style (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Reviews

"The engaging perspectives and careful research that characterize these essays make for a very useful and innovative collection of work. Truly multidisciplinary in scope, the collection will appeal to students and scholars of Music and French Studies, as well as to a much broader public, as it truly offers a compelling rethinking of the life and work of the celebrated, inventive, and complex man who was Claude Debussy." --H-France Review
"Rethinking Debussy arrives at an opportune time to showcase "new perspectives" and challenge previous interpretations. The questions these essays raise, and the data they present, will interest both the specialist looking for fresh angles on the subject and the
educated general reader wanting to survey the current state of research." --Notes
"Highly Recommended." -- James Tobin