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Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations in Historical and Musical Context
<p>Claude Debussy's music developed as a product of his environment and culminated in the creation of a unique harmonic vernacular that permeates the twentieth century's tonal language. Through a historical and musical context, his early life through his formative years as a composer will be …
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THE PORTRAYAL OF WATER AND WAVE PATTERNS IN THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY
My thesis considers the shaping of Debussy’s aesthetic, the musical language he uses within an oeuvre that centres on the role of Nature as imaginative stimulus, and its particular relevance to his Water pieces within which I determine wave patterns. An examination of his piano and orchestral …
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The Lutheran hymn "Ein' Feste Burg" in Claude Debussy's Cello Sonata (1915): motivic variation and structure
… few cellists are aware of its presence in the Debussy Cello Sonata, the notes and rhythm of the Lutheran hymn “Ein’ feste Burg” are quoted Debussy’s initial sketch of the sonata, implying a raison d’être that until now has remained unnoticed. The discovery of Debussy’s application of motives …
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Doctoral thesis recital (guitar (chamber))
… La fille aux cheveux de lin ; Arabesque no. 1 / Claude Debussy (with Camille Schiess, violin) -- Histoire du tango / Astor Piazzolla (with Chelsea Tanner, flute) -- Suite Bergamasque / Claude Debussy (with Matthew Gillen, guitar)
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The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
… the Belfry, while the second is a discussion of Claude Debussy’s unfinished opera, La Chute de la Maison Usher. The Devil in the Belfry is a rhapsody for viola and orchestra based on Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the same title. It contains quotations from the few sketches that Debussy left for his …
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Wan Kyu Chung's Graduate Recital
… first graduate recital: Ludwig van Beethoven; Claude Debussy; Sergei Prokofieff
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Master's thesis recital (clarinet)
Premiere rhapsodie / Claude Debussy -- Arias / Leslie Basset -- Fantasie for clarinet solo / Jorg Widman -- "Undine" sonata, op.167 / Carl Reinecke.
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Doctoral thesis recital (clarinet)
Premiere rhapsodie / Claude Debussy -- Introduction, theme, and variations / Gioachino Rossini -- Capriccio for solo clarinet / Heinrich Sutermeister -- Tema con variazioni / Jean Françaix -- Sonatina / Joseph Horovitz
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Doctoral thesis recital (clarinet)
… J. S. Bach / Bela Kovacs -- Premiere rhapsodie / Claude Debussy -- Fantasie / Jorg Widmann -- Clarinet concerto no. 2, in E flat, opus 74 / C. M. von Weber.
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Master's thesis recital (voice)
… Handel -- Fêtes galantes 1. recueil : L. 80 / Claude Debussy -- Mädchenblumen : op. 22 / Richard Strauss -- Six Elizabethan songs / Dominick Argento -- Quel fuardo il cavaliere : from Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti.
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The influence of the Javanese gamelan on selected piano works of Claude-Achille Debussy
With rare exceptions, all the biographers of Claude Debussy mention the influence on the composer of the Javanese gamelan which appeared at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889. Strangely, however, none of these historians discourse on the extent of this influence, nor on the way in which it …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
… Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber and Ryan Stewart will be performed. However, rather than chronological, the order of program has been decided according to the balance between the first and the second half and the intensity level of each piece related …
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Pelléas et Mélisande as symbolist opera
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) has more often than not been labelled an Impressionist, implying that his music parallels the art of the Impressionist painters; this is because in his work musical colour takes precedence over form and design (Jarocinski, 1976: 11). However, it has been documented that …
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Merging 20th Century Art Music and Pre-recorded Sound: 17 Pieces
… practices of Arnold Schoenberg (d.1951), Claude Debussy (d.1918), Nikolai Roslavets (d.1944), Luigi Nono (d.1990), Iannis Xenakis (d.2001) and Natasha Barrett (1972-). This was a practice-based PhD resulting in the creation of a series of new compositions for a variety of forces that …
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Works for Violin and Piano by French Composers, 1870-1950
… tones with perfect clarity of texture and form. Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc illustrate Impressionism by using of unresolved dissonance and uncommon scales such as whole tone, modal and pentatonic. The music evokes moods and atmospheres through rich and varied harmonies and tone colors. …
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Claude Debussy's Nocturnes and His Musical Style In the1890s
<p>Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was one of the most important composers in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. His innovative harmonic language changed principles of tonal music which had existed for more than two hundred years. Debussy established a new musical style, and his …
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The French Piano Prelude: Elizabeth Jacquet De La Guerre To Olivier Messiaen
… Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen and Cécile Chaminade.
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