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0367479117 rar Charles Frederick Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of dure, revealing his "revolution" in musical time. In fin-de-sicle Paris, Debussy was revolutionizing musical time while Bergson was establishing a metaphysics that challenged the notion of measured or spatialized time. Bergson argued that real time or dure could be grasped only through intuition as opposed to analysis. Debussy eschewed analysis of music, declaring that separating it into parts was better left to engineers. Debussys music and Bergsons dure were conceived and imagined in the environs of nature. The cycle of seasons, the gracefulness of a blooming flower, or a gentle breeze all suggest continuity, flow, and uninterrupted rhythm. The time of nature is the time of Debussys music and Bergsons Read more