Claude Debussy composed his music with an emphasis on sound, sensuous, and sumptuous sound. His music turned away from German-Romanticism and German music with its chromatic harmonies and melodic formulas. Debussy uses color as his basic building block and in doing so has constructed a style of music to represent him and his proud nation of France. This paper is going highlight his extrordinary style of composition and the techniques he used to develop Impressionism.
Between 1893 and 1895 Debussy worked on an opera based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas et Mélisande. According to Grayson, this project always encompassed Debussy. “The discovery of Pelléas in 1893 was indeed a major turning point in Debussy’s career, and, as his remarks imply, it was the production of this opera in 1902 that brought him international celebrity. From that point on, everybody did indeed know what he had done.” Debussy was taking great chances when writing opera, it was a good way to have everyone laugh at you and your work and put you on a shelf like a book you couldn’t get through.
His music stresses mood and nuances over patterns with pure melodies. It is impressive the way he created time standing still, by creating animated harmonic stasi
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His style of composition is his own, and the term Impressionism is his spotlight, to show his ingenious way of capturing your mind visually with his unique coloristic qualities of timbre. The sensibility of this era was used to strict forms, and traditional harmonies, but Debussy simply brings back elements of the past, like the use of Organum (Chant) and the use of traditional religious symbols of the Catholic lithurgy to create exotic feelings (whole tone, pentatonic, and modes). This fabulous process rewrote musical grammar. I do believe that you should trust a composer’s title, Debussy was laying the landscape for the Japanese artist Hokusai with La Mer. Debussy generates the quality of sound with timbre as his basic building block. Debussy again uses color and descriptive motives to create a unique texture in his music, as he did with his characters in Pelléas et Mélisande. The bass has planning, or parallelism; the middle part uses the modes as the religious symbols, and the top part emotes the long forgotten use of chant. Debussy had the ability to make anyone see and feel his art with his unique style of composition. Pelléas is killed but Gouland has also wounded Mélisande. He wants to kiss her hand, since he has to leave the next day. His wife joined the both of them in 1934.
I felt a sense of conquest of the ocean when the brass comes in. Debussy got the idea of creating a massive orchestral piece, like a “symphonic poem” which would allow him to paint on a large canvas a seascape in which he could embody all the passionate love for the sea, which had remained with him throughout his life.
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