Debussy (FRE) (mar 1, 1862 – feb 1, 1913)
Description:
• Impressionismo Emphasis on the overall impression rather than outline or clarity of detail
• Debussy wrote "We must agree that the beauty of a work of art will always remain a mystery [...] we can never be absolutely sure 'how it's made.' We must at all costs preserve this magic which is peculiar to music and to which music, by its nature, is of all the arts the most receptive."
• The frequent use of lengthy pedal points
• Frequent use of parallel chords
• Use of the whole-tone and pentatonic scales
• Unprepared modulations
• Arabesque
• Use of ancient modes
• Influence of “Gregorian modes”
• Harmonic progress moves slowly
• Use of rhythm to Renaissance polyphony
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Date:
mar 1, 1862
feb 1, 1913
~ 50 years