IMAGE OF THE GIRL WITH FLAXEN HAIR IN THE SOUND
OF DEBUSSISM Cover Image

СЛИКА ДЕВОЈКЕ СА ЛАНЕНОМ КОСОМ У ЗВУКУ ДЕБИСИЗМА
IMAGE OF THE GIRL WITH FLAXEN HAIR IN THE SOUND OF DEBUSSISM

Author(s): Marija E. Dinov Vasić
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: La fille aux cheveux de lin;Debussy;prelude;impressionism;image

Summary/Abstract: Distinctive and interesting music of Claude Debussy represents an inspiring heuristic challenge for artists and theoreticians of music even nowadays. Today, one hundred years after the composer's death, his complex and multi-layered music has been explored using an interdisciplinary approach. This approach allows a deeper and more comprehensive insight into the essence of the art of the first significant modern composer.The paper explored the traces that could point to the inspiration and processes of musical thinking inherent to the composer. The piano prelude La fille aux cheveux de lin is a paradigmatic example of Debussy's sound aesthetics which in a specific way incorporates the common aspirations of Symbolist poets and Impressionist painters. Consequently, one of the most popular works in piano literature can be properly interpreted through different artistic and media dimensions that in their mutual correlation and correspondence constitute a unique aesthetics of this music. This work focuses on the perception of Debussy’s music, i.e. the sound of Debussism, not only through musicological methodology, but also through the analytical framework of history of art, as an image of The Girl with flaxen hair, initially artistically painted and sounded in the poem of the same name written by Leconte de Lisle.The result of the research leads to the conclusion that Debussy's sound aesthetics cannot be properly understood without a profound research of the relationship between music and other forms of art. This relation defined a unique concept of artistic thinking during the period known as fin de siècle.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2018
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 57-72
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian