Critical Edition Series 1 Works for Piano Volume 3

Series I Volume 3

This edition is part of a massive undertaking to publish critical editions of the complete works of Claude Debussy. This is the first time a publisher has endeavoured to find manuscript sources for all of his works, coping with unorthodox notation techniques and scattered resources.

The volumes are printed in blue cloth-bound hardback editions with gold embossing. Each edition contains editorial notes, new printed scores, selected bibliographies and facsimile pages, and the music is preceded by a foreword retracing the music's genesis, and is followed by the critical notes describing sources, editorial method, and variants. Particularly significant variants are emphasized in the list of variants by bar references printed in bold type.

All known sources (sketches, manuscripts, proofs, editions, post-publication revisions, correspondence, historical recordings) are examined in detail. The musical text proposes Debussy's final intended version, as far as this can be ascertained. In cases where a work exists in two significantly different finished versions, both are published. When such variants concern only isolated passages, the earlier versions are given in appendix. Works hitherto unpublished, and unfinished works, are published as far as the state of the sources permits.

Edited by Roy Howat

Estampes

D'un cahier d'esquisses

Masques

L'Isle Joyeuse

Images (First Series)

Images (Second Series)