Debussy's - Prelude a l a'pres-midi d'un faune
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- Created on: 29-03-13 11:03
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- Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
- Form
- Ternary form...
- ...with coda
- A1, A2, B, A
- Texture
- Monophonic (opening flute solo)
- Contrapuntal (eg b. 74-78)
- Tune and Accompaniment (homophonic)
- Tonality
- Key - often ambiguous
- Begins and ends in E major
- Middle section in D flat
- Sense of modality
- Pentatonic phrases, use of whole tone scale
- Harmony
- Often chromatic - used for colour
- Few formal cadences
- Many enharmonic shifts creating juxtaposition
- Many dominant 7ths, 9ths and some 13ths
- Tritones often disrupt sense of key 9
- Melody
- Pentatonic phrases
- Melodic ideas presented (b 28 - flutes) and (b 39 - oboe)
- melody derived from the opening flute melody - constant variation
- Rhythm
- rhythm is fluid
- Slow rhythm reflects the metre
- Metre
- Varied and fluid
- Mostly triple time- alternates between compound and simple triple
- Alternates to compound duple and compound quadruple
- Other
- Impressionism
- Much of the piece is quiet
- wind melody dominates - string uses divisi
- Use of panpipes and antique bells
- Form
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