Debussy's "Soupir": An Experiment in Permutational Analysis

Abstract

What attracted me in Mallarme, at the stage I had reached at that time, was the extraordinary formal density of his poems. Not only was the content truly extraordinary . . . but never has the French language been taken so far in the matter of syntax.... What interested me was the idea of finding a musical equivalent, both poetic and formal, to Mallarme's poetry ... this enabled me to transcribe into musical terms forms that I had never thought of and which are derived from the literary forms he himself used.1

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 21 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.