Claude DEBUSSY. L.A.S., June 30, 1911, to musicologist René Lenormand; 1page in-8 at his address (mourning). "You are quite right to write "that one should not try to explain everything" and yet your analyses are extremely subtle! But you will see that your example will give rise to terrible glosses, for you know, as well as I do, that most people hear poorly, or better still, that they hear only fragmentarily"... [René Lenormand (1846-1932) was preparing a Étude sur l'harmonie moderne].