Debussy: Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune
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- Created by: Lizzie
- Created on: 02-04-13 12:24
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- Debussy
- Background
- Paris 1894
- Stéphane Mallarmé poem
- Free illustration
- Tone poem
- Instrumentation
- Solo flute
- Represents fauns pipes
- Antique Cymbals
- No timpani
- 2 harps
- Glissandi
- Harmonics 108-109
- Strings
- Divisi - up to 9 parts playing at a time
- Bowed tremolo 11
- Pizz and arco
- Sur la touche - over fingerboard
- Mutes
- Clarinets
- A and Bb used
- Tremolo 95
- Horns
- Bouche - stopped note 93
- Cuivre - brassy tone 92
- Solo flute
- Structure
- Prelude = first of a planned 3
- Loose ternany form + Coda
- Poem = 110 lines Prelude =110 bars
- Reprise of A much shorter
- A: 1-54 B: 55-78 A1:79-93 Coda:94-end
- Subsection: A1, Transition, A2
- Texture
- Mainly melody dominated homophony
- Flute solo monophonic
- Doubling of instruments 55
- Pedals 106-110
- Homorhythm 107 horn + violin1
- Harmony
- Harmonies exist to create musical colour
- Few formal cadences
- Dominant 7th, 9th and 13th chords
- Pedals 106-110
- Chromatic harmony
- Strings of parallel dissonances (string accompaniment 24)
- Each entry of theme harmonised differently
- Final cadence = little tonal tension, hazed in sound
- D# puts in a late quiet appearance in V chord
- Diatonic discords above dominant
- Tritones disrupt key, bass 55
- Melody
- Whole-tone scale clarinet 32 +flute 33
- Opening two bars are chromatic combo of tones + semitones and cover range of a tritone
- Motivic
- Pentatonic scale oboe 37
- Opening flute melody
- Repeated + unchanged with accomp tremolo strings 11-14
- Decorated with demisemiquaver triplets 21-22
- Slows melody down 79-82
- Tonality
- Ambiguous
- Chromaticism
- Whole tone scale clarinet 32 + flute 33
- Unresolved dissonances
- Pentatonic phrases, oboe 37
- Opening has chromatic melody starting on submediant and falls tritone = no sense of key.
- Begins in Emajor + end on perf cadence in Emaj
- Middle section is in Db major
- Ambiguous
- Rhythm
- Fluid rhythm with slow pulse
- Triplets 1
- Cross rhythms 67
- Syncopation 57
- Metre
- Difficult to define pulse or metre
- Opening theme: long notes, semiquavers, triplet semiquavers = sense of freedom and rhythmic flexibility.
- Rhythm
- Fluid rhythm with slow pulse
- Triplets 1
- Cross rhythms 67
- Syncopation 57
- Rhythm
- Opening metre is Compound Triple.
- Frequent changes of metre
- Lazy duplets and groups of 4 disguise compound time at the end
- B Section has more stable metrical framework
- Background
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