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Listen to the track Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Friday, May 26, 2006 7:56:36 PM
Artist: Ruth Towers
Title: "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy
Year: 2004
About Claude Debussy
A French composer of piano music, opera, cantatas, ballets, and orchestral and chamber works. His most notable pieces are "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)" (1894) and "Nocturnes" (1899). Inspired often by pictorial subjects (Monet's water impressions became "reflections in the water" for piano) and by the elusive and unnameable in nature (footsteps in the snow, still leaves, and the hypnotic, overwhelming sensations of his rare visits to the French coastline), Debussy's music develops chords, melodies, and orchestration that are connected more by a single surreal observation than by an overriding logic.
For example, one note is similar to another in a distantly related, enharmonic chord, but this brief tie is enough to follow, or a single gesture will soon evolve, spreading outward in all directions until a whole orchestral piece is made from a single falling line ("Afternoon of a Faun"; "Jeux"). Not bad for a kid born over his parents' china shop, who loved Lassus and Palestrina as much as ragtime and Javanese music. | © All Music Guide
To listen to this track please click here: Clair de Lune
Fatimahzenya # Friday, May 26, 2006 8:07:40 PM
Very nice music, one of an old favor from a movie which I think Humprey Bogart was in
I am sure you have seen his movies they are all in black and white
thanks always for nice movies and music
Eve
Allanricewood # Friday, May 26, 2006 11:11:34 PM
I have listened to that ever since I was a kid. It will still do things to me. Either it brings a tear to my eye - or it makes the hair on my arms stand on end.
Thanks for the reminder.
Núriacucafera # Friday, May 26, 2006 11:32:33 PM
Ich liebe seit schon lange dieses Stück... Träumerisch...
Alles gute,
Núria
E. Driver # Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:13:08 AM
This has been the background of quite a few movies. Claude Debussy is great and I'll post more links to his music.
Everybody have a nice weekend
Elmar
Andrzej Uandreu # Monday, May 29, 2006 8:27:24 AM
Very good melody...
Anonymous # Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:18:18 PM