Description

Debussy’s Critics reframes a formative moment in European modernism, exploring the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences around the turn of the twentieth century, and uncovering significant connections between musical culture and contemporary understandings of affect, perception, and cognition.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1: Wagnerisme and the Aesthetic of Sentiment
Chapter 2: Pelleas et Melisande and the Aesthetic of Sensation
Chapter 3: Marnold: Music as Epistemology
Chapter 4: Laloy: Music as Truth
Chapter 5: Rewriting Modernism