Debussy in context

Part I. Paris : City, Politics, and Society. Paris, the City / Martin Guerpin ; Paris and the Nation's Politics / Federico Lazzaro ; Beyond Paris / Lola San Martín Arbide ; Feminine Beginnings: Women's Critical Perspectives on Debussy (1897-1914) / Christopher Moore ; Consumption and Leisure / H. Hazel Hahn

Part II. The Arts. Debussy's Impressionism Interrogated / Richard Langham Smith ; Symbolism / François de Médicis ; Modernism / Michel Duchesneau ; Wagnérisme / Steven Huebner ; Japonisme, Collecting, and the Expositions Universelles / Matthew Brown ; Crosscurrents in Debussy's Creative World / Annegret Fauser

Part III. People and Milieu. Debussy and the Family in Third Republic France / Kimberly White ; Romantic Relationships / Marianne Wheeldon ; Relationships with Poets and other Literary Figures / Caroline Potter ; Publishers / Denis Herlin ; Composers with whom Debussy was Associated / Laura Watson ; Music Education and the Prix de Rome / Julia Lu and Kenji Fujimura

Part IV. Musical Life : Infrastructure and Earning a Living. The Jobbing Composer-Musician / Denis Herlin ; Parisian Opera Institutions : A Framework for Creation / Hervé Lacombe ; Société nationale and Other Institutions / Michael Strasser ; Debussy's noctambule and Parisian Popular Culture / Sarah Gutsche-Miller ; Music Criticism and Related Writing in Paris / Michel Duchesneau

Part V. The Music of Debussy's Time. Composing for Opera and Theatre Outside Established Genres / Hervé Lacombe ; Ballet and Dance / David J. Code ; Orchestral Music and Symphonic Traditions / Andrew Deruchie ; Chamber Music / Matthew Brown ; Song and Choral Music / David J. Code ; The Piano / Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

Part VI. Performers, Reception, and Posterity. Performers and Performance / Simon Trezise ; Early Music / Catrina Flint de Médicis ; Performance Today : Hearing Debussy Anew on Period Instruments / Brian Hart ; Debussy Today / Matthew Brown.