WAS DEVOTED




CONTENTS

I. DEBUSSY AND HIS ART

II. THE PLAY
ITS QUALITIES
ITS ACTION

III. THE MUSIC
A REVOLUTIONARY SCORE
THE THEMES AND THEIR TREATMENT




DEBUSSY'S PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

"It is not an ill thing to cross at times the marches of silence and
see the phantoms of life and death in a new way. It is not an ill thing,
even if one meet only the fantasies of beauty."--FIONA MACLEOD.




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