Debussy's 'Ibéria'

Born in London, Matthew Brown studied at the Royal College of Music Preparatory Division and later at King's College London. He pursued a Ph.D. in musicology at Cornell University. From 1983-1986 he was a junior fellow at Harvard University. Since then, he has taught musicology at the Eastman School of Music and theory at Louisiana State University. He has served on the council of the American Musicological Society and the executive board of the Society for Music Theory. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music.

• EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; MUSICAL COMPOSITION AND PROBLEM SOLVING; 1. COMPOSITION HISTORY AND MUSICAL SOURCES; 4. 'PAR LES RUES E LES CHEMINS'; SKETCH STUDIES AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Brown's insights into Iberia prove highly illuminating; his book is lucidly written and extremely generous with examples and documentation. It helps to have a score at hand , but even the most involved parts of the analysis flow easily, and one need not be either a specialist in Schenker or sketch studies to follow it.