Rethinking Debussy

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