Modern Music
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 Pelleas et Melisande. According to Grayson, this project always encompassed Debussy. "The discovery of Pelleas 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
You can feel the morning sun on the ocean; if you were to look up you would see a lone seagull flying over head while a cool little breeze in your face while you stare out at the vast sea. Debussy pushes his music forward into the Twentieth Century by incorporating techniques and scales from the past. 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. This creates the feeling of time standing still (harmonic stasis). Debussy is so skillful, an absolute genius in the way he goes about creating these sounds. He uses what has been previously unacceptable voice leading (parallel fifths and octaves) in a manner called "Planning" or more commonly known as "Parallelism". This fabulous process rewrote musical grammar. Debussy had the ability to make anyone see and feel his art with his unique style of composition. Pelleas noticing for the first time addressing her the familiar 'tu'. Debussy had the ability to move music into the next sensibility, and I feel he did it visually as well as musically. Myers claims that in 1903, while staying with Lilly's parents, at Bichian in Burgundy.
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