Le "influenze stilistiche" di Claude Debussy su Manuel de Falla

Abstract

This article presents and analyses problems of different types: the first is historical: Claude Debussy's stylistic influence on Manuel de Falla; the second is theoretical: defining the concept of stylistic influence; and the last is methodological: how to analyse, given two or more related works, the influence of one on the other.
The article is divided into two parts: the first part presents the theoretical and methodological hypotheses which will be followed, and which result from the elaboration of certain intertextual theories (R. Barthes) and from the most recent studies on musical style (K. Agawu. M. Baroni, M. Imberty); the second part, the result of documentary research carried out in the Manuel de Falla Archive at Granada, applies the above-mentioned hypotheses to a study of the interpretation by Falla and his Spanish contemporaries of the Debussy 'phenomenon', supplying documentary evidence of the role he played in the creation of Falla's style.
The music of Manuel de Falla, full of 'quotations' but not sufficiently analysed from this point of view, is particularly suited to an intertextual study, thereby making it possible to underline his Foucaultian modernity.