Fragmentation and eros in Debussy's Chanson de Bilitis and Six Épigraphes antiques

Debussy based one of his last piano works, the Six Epigraphes antiques of 1914, on some unpublished incidental music he had composed in 1901 for Pierre Louys's Chansons de Bilitis. The original Bilitis music has typically been disparaged as a rough draft, left in fragments because Debussy di...

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Main Author: Iwaasa, Rachel
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30894