FOOTNOTES:
[1] He no longer uses the first of these given names.
[2] A revised version of these songs was published fifteen years later, in 1903, dedicated à Miss Mary Garden, inoubliable Mélisande.
[3] M. Debussy sends me the information that, although the music of Pelléas et Mélisande was begun as early as September, 1893, he was not finally through with it until nine years later. In the spring of 1901 the last scene of the fourth act (the love-scene at the fountain in the park, with its abrupt and tragic close) was rewritten, and in 1902, after the first rehearsals at the Opéra-Comique, it was found necessary to lengthen the orchestral interludes between the different tableaux in order that the scene-shifters might have sufficient time to change the settings. These extended interludes are included in the edition of the score for piano and voices, with French and English text, published in 1907.
[4] The above is written in July, 1907.
[5] Although this scene was set to music by Debussy, and appears in both the orchestral and piano scores, it is omitted from the performances at the Opéra-Comique.
[6] Its curious progressions, based on the Dorian mode of the plain-chant (corresponding to a scale of D-minor without accidentals), I have alluded to in a previous chapter.
[7] These indications refer to the arrangement of the score for voices and piano, with French and English text, published by A. Durand & Fils of Paris in 1907. I have indicated in each case, in addition to the page, the measure in which the example begins.
[8] I quote it in the completer and more beautiful form in which it appears on page 57, measures 1-3.
[9] I quote it as it appears in its maturer form on page 125 (measure 3).