# Debussy: Text and Ideas - Part Two

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Helen Abbott, Emma Adlard, Professor Joseph Acquisto, Professor Richard Langham Smith, Professor Robert Orledge, Dr Mary Breatnach, Professor Manuela Toscano, Stephen Wyatt, Dr David Code
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

According to some scholars, Baudelaire’s ‘Le Jet d’eau’ may originally have been written in conjunction with the chansonnier Pierre Dupont as a form of popular song. Whilst no record of any music by Dupont for this poem survives, this lecture sets out to examine what textual features of the poem seem to make it particularly ‘settable’ to music.

## Lectures

1. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Singing 'Le Jet d'eau'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/c5aef2cfb03d) (YouTube)
2. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Fête galante and the Salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/033b8fb3c20e) (YouTube)
3. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Text, gesture and performance in Debussy's 'Trois Poemes de Stephanie Mallarme'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/032c6d5fe0f8) (YouTube)
4. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: The Acte en vers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/4084f19c32e0) (YouTube)
5. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Concert](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/f9c00901ebbe) (YouTube)
6. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Hokusai and La Mer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/1dc253cfd64b) (YouTube)
7. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: Movement in Space](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/112958a4b44b) (YouTube)
8. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: The reconstruction of Debussy's 'other' Poe opera](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/928a921ee257) (YouTube)
9. [Debussy - Text and Ideas: The 'Song Triptych', and fin-de-siecle Visual Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-debussy-text-and-ideas-part-two/067dd097250c) (YouTube)