Debussy and Modern Era Of Classical Music

Throughout this course I have learned about various styles of music and composers. Discovering how they are interrelated and how they have changed and evolved over time. For the last few weeks I have been preparing a song that was composed by Debussy and I have discovered a great deal about it. I chose to write about this song because for the entire year we have been working hard on our breathing techniques and I find that this song requires more effort on the singer’s part to prepare and understand where to breathe. Also as one of the first French songs I found this song to be most memorable in melody and style.

Claude Debussy is classified in both the romantic period and the modern period in music. He was finishing up the romantic period with his shocking new compositions and with a slight oriental influence forged ahead into the modern period. His works significantly break away from the concepts of traditional form and harmony. He is also considered the most important composer of piano music since Frédéric Chopin. Claude Debussy was fascinated by Eastern music and the whole-tone scale, and created a style of music named after the movement in French painting called Impressionism. D

Music is in many ways the fabric of our lives and the definition of society. It is a reminder of how things once were, an indication of how things are, and a view of where society is headed. Music is a direct reflection of the picture of society. Music can be a way to deliver messages, a poetic medium, a fine art, or nothing more than a source of entertainment. No matter what it is used for, music is the perfect art and our lives would be that much less complete without it. This piece is music and therefore significant to ourselves.

ebussy was a great harmonic innovator of the Twentieth Century. He created fresh, new tonal perspectives without abandoning the theme of his pieces. The emphasis of Debussy's was the overall impression (the coloring textures of the music) instead of the detail and structure.

“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”(Claude Debussy)

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