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  Languedoc Trilogy: Book 2

  Sepulchre

  by Kate Mosse

  From the author of the New York Times– bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France. In 1891, young Leonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain... (more)
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  Claude Debussy (Composer's World Series)

  by Wendy Thompson

  This biography looks at the life and work of Claude Debussy. Illustrated with impressioninst and "art nouveau", the book portrays Debussy's life against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Paris. Simple keyboard arrangements of some of Debussy's work are also included.
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  The Poetic Debussy

  A Collection of His Song Texts and Selected Letters

  by Claude Debussy, Richard Miller

  This completely revised second edition of The Poetic Debussy contains the most recent discoveries in the composer's oeuvre, including a number of hitherto unknown songs. The texts of all Debussy's songs, both in the original French and with revised English translations on the facing page, are collected in chronological order, with notes and location of sources. In addition, Margaret Cobb has brought together a... (more)
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  A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

  by E. A. Bucchianeri

  This unique book presents new and intriguing philosophical analysis on several renowned composers and their work, dating from the Baroque period to contemporary times. E. A. Bucchianeri offers original, informative theories, appealing to all music lovers, professionals and amateurs alike.
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  Favorite Piano Works (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)

  Many of Debussy's best-known pieces are assembled in this convenient, affordable collection. Includes: Children's Corner * Deux arabesques * Estampes * Hommage a Haydn * Images * L'isle joyeuse * Masques * Le petit negre * La plus que lente * Preludes, Books 1 and 2 (selections) * Reverie, Suite bergamasque (including "Clair de lune") * Suite: Pour le piano.
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  Modern Music : A Concise History (The World of Art)

  by Paul E. Griffiths

  Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Philip Glass and Elliott Carter. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and turning points... (more)