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Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes throughout both pieces. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time. [1] Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote: [2]
The most well-known are Claude Debussy's Deux Arabesques, composed in 1888 and 1891, respectively. Other composers who have written arabesques include: Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques (1891), L.66; Marin Marais: L'arabesque (1717), appears in the soundtrack of the film Tous les Matins du Monde; Robert Schumann: Arabeske in C, Op. 18 (1839)
Claude Debussy c. 1910. This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, [1] which is generally in chronological order of composition date. "L¹" numbers are also given from Lesure's ...
From 1914, the composer, encouraged by the music publisher Jacques Durand, intended to write a set of six sonatas for various instruments, in homage to the French composers of the 18th century. The effects of the First World War and an interest in baroque composers Couperin and Rameau inspired Debussy as he was writing the sonatas.
Images pour orchestre, L. 122, is an orchestral composition in three sections by Claude Debussy, written between 1905 and 1912. Debussy had originally intended this set of Images as a two-piano sequel to the first set of Images for solo piano, as described in a letter to his publisher Durand as of September 1905. However, by March 1906, in ...
Motif 1 is heard on a broader scale in the bass notes (dotted whole notes) in measures 1–16, hitting the notes of the motif in inversion and transposition on the down-beats of measures 1, 15, and 16 (G–C–B). Also within measures 1 through 15 are two occurrences of motif 2 (G in measure 1, E in measure 5; E in measure 5, C in measure 15.)
[1] [3] Debussy composed little piano music during the 1890s and focused on opera and orchestral music. [4] He completed the suite in 1901, revising Sarabande. [5] He also dedicated the revised version of Sarabande, as well as the third movement, Toccata, to Yvonne Lerolle, now Mme E. Rouart. [3] The suite was published in 1901 by Eugène Fromont.
6 harp sonatas with violin, Op. 1 (c.1775) 4 harp sonatas with violin, double bass, and two horns, Op. 3 (c.1776) 6 harp sonatas, Op. 8 (c. 1780), nos. 1–5 with violin or flute; Collection de pièces de différens genres distribuées en 6 sonates with piano, Opp. 13–14 (c.1788)