Date of Award

2014

Type

Thesis

Major

Music

Department

Schwob School of Music

First Advisor

Lisa Oberlander

Abstract

Claude Debussy's music developed as a product of his environment and culminated in the creation of a unique harmonic vernacular that permeates the twentieth century's tonal language. Through a historical and musical context, his early life through his formative years as a composer will be examined as a natural progression of his environment. The first section of this work will discuss these developments while the second part will analyze the structure and form of the Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano to illustrate the culmination of this trajectory.

Comments

Honors Thesis

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