Dissertation Index
Author: Derkert, Jacob Title: Tonalitet och harmonisk artikulation i Claude Debussys verk. Om reception, armonikteori och analys Institution: University of Stockholm Begun: unspecified Completed: October 1998 Abstract: This dissertation is a study of ways to analyze some harmonic features of the music of Claude Debussy. It begins with a critical survey of the discussion of tonality and dissolution of tonality in Debussy's works, as it manifested itself in contemporary French criticism and in the German-speaking countries after World War I. It tries to clarify the notion of "tonality" involved in this discussion. It comes to a critical conclusion concerning the characterization of Debussy's music as embodying dissolution of tonality, which is found to be either rather trivial or speculative, i.e. unproven and difficult to test. A conceptual clarification is suggested, which gives a slightly different, at once more general and more precise, meaning to the trivial version of the discussed characterization. Next we turn to a discussion of the use of different scale-forms found in Debussy's music. We show that, in spite of the absence of tonality at the chord level, and in spite of the presence of a wide variety of different scale-forms, a scale-based conception of keys can be used to analyze at least some works of Debussy as embodying an articulation of keys. We then turn to ways to analyze the scale-form variation in itself. Lastly, we note that key-articulation in Debussy's music is due to two factors: transposition and scale-form variation. We present a simple method to single out the contributions of these two factors. TOC: Kapitel I Det problem som avhandlas Kapitel II Om musikteori och musikanalys Kapitel III Debussy som impressionist Ursprunget till en gängse karaktäristik: Hur Debussys behandling av harmonik och tonalitet diskuterades i den samtida kritiken Kapitel IV Studiet av tonalitetsupplösning i Debussys musik med utgångspunkt i traditionell musikteori Del 1: Om tonalitetsbegreppet Kapitel V Studiet av tonalitetsupplösning i Debussys musik med utgångspunkt i traditionell musikteori Del 2: Om debussyreceptionen [sic! A small letter at the beginning of the last word!] Kapitel VI Andra ansatser i analysen av Debussys harmonik Kapitel VII Ett formalt tonalitetsbegrepp Kapitel VIII Tonalitet i Debussys musik? Kapitel IX Tonartsartikulation i Debussys musik? Kapitel X Analys baserad på tonförråds intervallinnehåll och dess tillämpbarhet på Debussys musik Kapitel XI Tonartsartikulationens två orsaker: Formvariation och transposition Kapitel XII Slutsatser Summary in English Contact: Jacob Derkert Musikvetenskapliga institutionen Stockholms universitet Valhallavagen 103-109 S-115 31 Stockholm Sweden fax: +46 8 163 281 jacob.derkert@telia.com |