FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal, Canada STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds CAROLINE RAE is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, UK. FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS is Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal, Canada MARIE ROLF is Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester NY. MARK MCFARLAND is Associate Professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University. Matthew Brown is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.

• Introduction - Francois de Medicis and Steven HuebnerPART 1. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND EDITORIAL ISSUESDebussy Fifty Years Later: Has the Barrel Run Dry? - Richard Langham SmithThe Oeuvres complètes de Claude Debussy Thiry Years On - Roy HowatThe Kunkelmann Manuscripts: New Sources for Early Mélodies by Claude Debussy - Denis Herlin"Paysage sentimental": "Si doux, si triste, si dormant . . ." - David GraysonPART 2. STYLE AND GENREThe "Song Triptych": Reflections on a Debussyan Genre - David J. CodeComposing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890-1902 - Francois de MedicisBetween Massenet and Wagner - Steven HuebnerDebussy's Concept of Orchestration - Robert OrledgeOriental and Iberian Resonances in Early Debussy Songs - Marie RolfPART 3. HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICSDebussy and Japanese Prints - Michel Duchesneau"Les sons . . . tournent": Debussy, the Waltz, and Embodied Hermeneutics - August SheehySecrets and Lies, or the Truth About Pelléas - Katherine BergeronVertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, and the Edge of Language - Julian JohnsonPART 4. THEORETICAL ISSUESFollow the Leader: Debussy's Contrapuntal Games - Matthew BrownDebussy's Absolute Pitch: Motivic Harmony and Choise of Keys - Mark DeVotoDebussy's G#/Ab Complex: The Adventures of a Pitch-Class from the Suite bergamasque to the Douze études - Boyd PomeroyThe Games of Jeux - Mark McFarlandPART 5. PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTIONDebussy and Late-Romantic Performing Practices: The Piano Rolls of 1912 - Jocelyn HoMarius-François Gaillard's Debussy: Controversies and Pianistic Legacy - Caroline RaeFashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France - Barbara L. KellyList of ContributorsIndex

Worth reading twice. If the great orchestral masterpieces are among your favorites, Robert Orledge is as knowledgeable as you would wish.