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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
musical modernism • move away from conventional practices of representation in the arts
challenges to • scales • melody • harmony • rhythm • tone color • time • tonality • and more
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
musical modernism
Paris (1889 International Exposition)
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
musical modernism
Paris
gamelan
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Claude Debussy“Pagodas”, from Prints (1899)
influenced by hearing gamelan music
multiple melodies moving at separate tempos (at start)
percussive, resonant timbre
exoticism: attempt to evoke “the East” (title, scales, music)
impressionistic effects
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)“Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899)
Impressionism - blurred impression of outer reality
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Claude Monet (French impressionist painter)
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James Whistler
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Debussy, “Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899)
oscillating, repeated, cyclical chords
motivic, not goal-oriented
unconventional development, unconventional form
alternative scales• pentatonic scale• octatonic scale
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Debussy, “Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899)
Some Musical Effects:
Not about progress, development, goals • Listen to individual moments
Different sense of Time (floating, suspended)
Not as clear a sense of form or individual measures