Dodson, Alan. "'So Free as to Seem Improvised': Rhythmic Revisions and Kinetic Form in Debussy's Recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses." Forthcoming in Claude Debussys Aufnahmen eigener Klavierwerke, ed. Tihomir Popovic. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. [abstract] [full text (preprint)]


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Ex. 1 score of D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 44–45

Ex. 2 proportional analysis of D'un cahier d'esquisses from Roy Howat, Debussy in Proportion

Ex. 3 durations in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 43–45

Ex. 4 Prelude No. 10 ("La cathédrale engloutie"), bars 5–9: (a) score, (b) durations in Debussy's recording

Ex. 5 D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 51–53: (a) score, (b) durations in Debussy's recording

Ex. 6 proportional analysis of Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses

Ex. 7 recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses by Fou Ts'ong, bars 45–46

Ex. 8 grouping in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses, coda (bars 45–53)

Ex. 9 score of D'un cahier d'esquisses, first episode (bars 11–28)

Ex. 10 tempo in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses, first episode (bars 11–28)

Ex. 11 basic concepts from Hasty, Meter as Rhythm: (a) projection, (b) complex projection

Ex. 12 processes of metric change from Hasty, Meter as Rhythm: (a) denial, (b) deferral, (c) interruption, (d) hiatus

Ex. 13 metric analysis of the introduction (bars 1–10) in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses

Ex. 14 score of D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 1–10

Ex. 15 metric analysis of bars 29–37 from the second episode in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses

Ex. 16 score of D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 29–37

Ex. 17 score of D'un cahier d'esquisses, bars 40–45

Ex. 18 metric analysis of bars 40–45 (cadenza and surrounding measures) in Debussy's recording of D'un cahier d'esquisses

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