Colour and Refinement in Claude Debussy’s Music
Colour and Refinement in Claude Debussy’s Music

Summary/Abstract: I will attempt in this study to highlight those quantifiable elements and structures which can underline realities which hide behind wording. This is very much part of impressionist and/or symbolist aesthetics and music’s ineffable and unutterable qualities. I will equally employ principles and wording which are the expression of pertinent conceptualization and rationalization, belonging to both musical and extra-musical space, with express reference to impressionist painting and symbolist poetry, the motivation being an attempt to reveal the connections which can be established between musical attitudes which acknowledge impressionist and/or symbolist influences and those which do not.

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