DEBUSSY'S PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

[Illustration: _Claude Debussy (From the painting by Jacques Blanche)_]


A GUIDE TO THE OPERA

WITH MUSICAL EXAMPLES FROM THE SCORE


BY

LAWRENCE GILMAN

AUTHOR OF "PHASES OF MODERN MUSIC," "THE MUSIC OF TO-MORROW,"
"STORIES OF SYMPHONIC MUSIC," "EDWARD MACDOWELL" (IN "LIVING
MASTERS OF MUSIC" SERIES) "STRAUSS' 'SALOME,'" ETC.

NEW YORK G. SCHIRMER 1907

TO THE MEMORY OF

GUSTAVE SCHIRMER

A MUSIC LOVER OF LIBERAL TASTE
AND SENSITIVE APPRECIATION
AND AN INFLUENTIAL FORCE
IN THE PROMOTION OF
THE FINER THINGS OF THE ART
TO WHICH HIS LIFE