Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune analysis
Mind map analysis of one of the set works for 2013
- Created by: William
- Created on: 30-10-12 14:38
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- Debussy 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'
- Impressionism
- Form
- Texture
- Ternary Form - A:B:A
- Form
- Style of Music in which atmosphere created by colour, tone and texture is more important than clearly defined phrases and structures
- Impressionism
- Texture
- A: 1-54 B: 55-78 A: 79-93 Coda: 94-End
- Ternary Form - A:B:A
- Ternary Form - A:B:A
- Tonality + Harmony
- Debussy 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'
- Sharp keys centred on E major
- Chords used for the colours they create (non-functional harmony)
- Section B centred around D flat major
- Sharp keys centred on E major
- Debussy 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune'
- Rich Colourful Harmony that seems to obscure the key rather than define it
- Tonality + Harmony
- Chords used for the colours they create (non-functional harmony)
- Section B centred around D flat major
- Tonality + Harmony
- Avoids clear tonal direction
- Very few root position chords, mostly chromatic + uses dissonance freely
- Bar 24: strings of parallel dissonances
- Melody
- Melodic variation rather than motivic development
- Bar 21: lengthens first note and decorates melody of third bar
- Debussy's main interest is not in developing melodies , but in presenting the same theme in various rhythmic + melodic variants and in different textures + harmonizations
- Melody
- Melodic variation rather than motivic development
- Bar 21: lengthens first note and decorates melody of third bar
- Rhythm + Meter
- Melody
- Use of whole tone scales e.g bar 32
- Bar 11: repeat of fawns theme with tremolo strings
- Bar 26: ends phrase with fast version of first bar
- Bar 79: Augmentation - slows whole melody down
- Subtle Orchestral Textures
- Rhythm + Meter
- Complex rhythms disguise regular pulse - rhythms are as fluid as an impressionist's brushstrokes
- Instrumentation
- Opens with distinctive bottom octave of flute
- Style of Music in which atmosphere created by colour, tone and texture is more important than clearly defined phrases and structures
- Bar 4: Timbre Change
- Instrumentation
- Opens with distinctive bottom octave of flute
- Instrumentation
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