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Jean-Christophe Branger, Sylvie Douche and Denis Herlin, eds, Pelléas et Mélisande cent and après: études et documents (Lyon: Symétrie, 2012). 609 pp. 64.00 €.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2016

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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 2016 , pp. 289 - 298
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1 In 1913, Debussy suggested that opera composers should think cinematically rather than symphonically: ‘It is film – the Ariadne’s thread – that will show us the way out of this disquieting labyrinth’; Debussy, ‘Concerts Colonne’, SIM (1 November 1913), in Claude Debussy, Monsieur Croche et autres écrits, ed. François Lesure (Paris: Gallimard, 1987): 248, and Debussy on Music, ed. François Lesure and trans. Richard Langham Smith (New York: Knopf, 1977): 298.

2 Part 1. De la gènese aux premières representations. Smith, Richard Langham, ‘D’un opéra à l’autre: de Rodrigue et Pelléas’, 17–40 Google Scholar; Herlin, Denis, ‘Pelléas et Mélisande aux Bouffes-Parisiens’, 41–57 Google Scholar; Giroud, Vincent, ‘Le manuscript Koch de Pelléas et Mélisande’, 59–76 Google Scholar; Grayson, David, ‘L’édition scientifique de Pelléas et Mélisande’, 77–87 Google Scholar; Nichols, Roger, ‘“En secouant la poussière”: la mise en scène d’Albert Carré’, 89–110 Google Scholar.

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