Product Description
2 pages; for solo classical guitar; published by Maggie Creek Music
Claude
Debussy (1862 1918)
Debussys
compositions form part of an art movement known as French
Impressionism that evolved in France at the end of the 19th
Century. He was its leading musical exponent and a seminal influence
on modern music. The aim of Impressionism was to reflect mood, which
Debussy did with the use of unusual chords and modes which
nevertheless progress unerringly through evocative landscapes to
peaks of tension. Careful attention to form gives impalpable
sentiments a sense of direction and completion.
The
excerpt 'Golaud's Letter' from early in Debussy's only opera, the
hugely influential Pelleas and Melisande, demonstrates this,
and exhibits his masterful expression of mood and drama. Exquisite
without being flowery, forceful but not overblown, the Letter's
spoken voice recitative style is a natural accompaniment to the
Letter's contents, while it accentuates the arrival of cadences.
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