Singing Debussy’s setting of ‘Le Jet d’eau’ by Baudelaire – Professor Helen Abbott

bron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fasd461i3gc, Gepubliceerd op 22 aug. 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjS7b6dE0ak Gepubliceerd op 17 aug. 2012 According to some scholars, Baudelaire’s ‘Le Jet d’eau’ may originally have been written in conjunction with the chansonnier Pierre Dupont as a form of popular song. Whilst no record of any music by Dupont for this poem survives, this lecture sets out to examine what textual features of the poem seem to make it particularly ‘settable’ to…

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Text, Gesture and Performance in Debussy’s ‘Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé’

Bron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG8vTvTopGU Gepubliceerd op 22 aug. 2012 Debussy’s “Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé” (1913) are among the relatively infrequent instances of musical settings of Mallarmé’s poetry. Following Jankélévitch on Debussy and a host of critics on Mallarmé, Professor Joseph Acquisto argues that these poems and songs comment on communicating the ineffable.

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