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| Aebersold Phil Degreg – Jazz keyboard harmony – A practical method for all musicians |
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jazz keyboard harmony |
| Aebersold RAPID REFERENCE | Aebersold RAPID REFERENCE | |
| Aebersold vol 1 Cómo improvisar y tocar JAZZ Spanish edition – Español |
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Aebersold vol 1 Cómo improvisar y tocar JAZZ Spanish edition |
| Aebersold Vol. 01 – Jazz improvisation A New Approach To Jazz Improvisation |
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Aebersold Vol. 01 – Jazz improvisation |
| Aebersold Vol. 60 Dan Haerle & Mark Levine – Jazz Piano Voicings |
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| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 02 – Nothin’ But Blues | Jazz Play Along Vol 002 – [Nothin’ But Blues] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 03 – The II-V7-I Progression | Jazz Play Along Vol 003 – [The II-V7-I Progression] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 04 – Movin’ On | Jazz Play Along Vol 004 – [Movin’ On] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 05 – Time To Play Music! | Jazz Play Along Vol 005 – [Time To Play Music!] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 06 – Charlie Parker | Jazz Play Along Vol 006 – [Charlie Parker – All Bird] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 07 – Miles Davis |
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Jazz Play Along Vol 007 – [Miles Davis] |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 08 – Sonny Rollins | Jazz Play Along Vol 008 – [Sonny Rollins] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 09 – Woody Shaw | Jazz Play Along Vol 009 – [Woody Shaw] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 10 – David Baker | Jazz Play Along Vol 010 – [David Baker] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 100 – St. Louis Blues | Jazz Play Along Vol 011 – [Herbie Hancock] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 101 – Secret of the Andes | Jazz Play Along Vol 012 – [Duke Ellington] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 102 – Jerry Bergonzi | Jazz Play Along Vol 102 – [Jerry Bergonzi] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 103 – David Sanborn | Jazz Play Along Vol 103 – [David Sanborn] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 104 – Kenny Werner | Jazz Play Along Vol 104 – [Free Play – 13 Musical Landscapes] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 105 – Dave Brubeck | Jazz Play Along Vol 105 – [Dave Brubeck] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 106 – Lee Morgan | Jazz Play Along Vol 106 – [Lee Morgan] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 107 – STANDARDS FOR SINGERS | Jazz Play Along Vol 109 [Fusion] Jazz Play Along Vol 110 [When i Fall in Love] Aebersold – Vol 107 – IT HAD TO BE YOU | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 108 – Joe Henderson | Jazz Play Along Vol 108 – [Joe Henderson] – C-Bb | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 109 – Fusion | Jazz Play Along Vol 109 [Fusion] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 11 – Herbie Hancock | Jazz Play Along Vol 011 – [Herbie Hancock] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 111 – J.J. Johnson | Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 111 – J.J. Johnson | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 112 – [Cole Porter] |
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Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 112 – [Cole Porter]_compressed |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – vol 115 – Ron Carter | Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – vol 115 – Ron Carter | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 12 – Duke Ellington | Jazz Play Along Vol 012 – [Duke Ellington] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 13 – Cannonball Adderley | Jazz Play Along Vol 013 – [Cannonball Adderley] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 14 – Benny Golson | Aebersold – Vol 14 – Benny Golson | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 15 – Payin’ Dues | Aebersold – Vol 15 – Payin’ Dues | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 15 – Payin’ Dues – Complete Bass Lines | Aebersold – Vol 15 – Payin’ Dues – Complete Bass Lines | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 16 -Turnarounds, Cycles & II V7’s | Jazz Play Along Vol 016 – [Turnarounds, Cycles & II-V7’s] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 17 – Horace Silver | Jazz Play Along Vol 017 – [Horace Silver] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 18 – Horace Silver | Jazz Play Along Vol 018 – [Horace Silver] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 19 – David Liebman | Jazz Play Along Vol 019 – [David Liebman] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 20 – Jimmy Raney | Jazz Play Along Vol 020 – [Jimmy Raney] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 21 – Gettin’ It Together (& Supplement) | Jazz Play Along Vol 021 – [Gettin It Together] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 22 – Favorite Standards | Jazz Play Along Vol 022 – [Favorite Standards] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 23 – One Dozen Standards | Jazz Play Along Vol 023 – [One Dozen Standards] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 24 – Major and Minor | Jazz Play Along Vol 024 – [Major and Minor] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 25 – All Time Standards | Jazz Play Along Vol 025 – [All Time Standards] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 26 – Scale Syllabus | Jazz Play Along Vol 026 – [Scale Syllabus] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 27 – John Coltrane | Jazz Play Along Vol 027 – [John Coltrane] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 28 Jazz Play Along Vol 028 – [Giant Steps] | Jazz Play Along Vol 029 – [Play Duets With Jimmy Raney] Jazz Play Along Vol 028 – [Giant Steps] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 29 – Play Duets With Jimmy Raney | Jazz Play Along Vol 029 – [Play Duets With Jimmy Raney] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 30 – Rhythm Section Workout | Jazz Play Along Vol 030 – [Rhythm Section Workout] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 31 – Bossa Novas | Jazz Play Along Vol 031 – [Bossa Novas] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 32 – Ballads | Jazz Play Along Vol 032 – [Ballads] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 33 – Wayne Shorter | Jazz Play Along Vol 033 – [Wayne Shorter] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 34 – Jam Session | Jazz Play Along Vol 034 – [Jam Session] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 35 – Cedar Walton | Jazz Play Along Vol 035 – [Cedar Walton] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 36 – Bebop & Beyond | Jazz Play Along Vol 036 – [Bebop & Beyond] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 37 – Sammy Nestico | Jazz Play Along Vol 037 – [Sammy Nestico] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 38 – Blue Note | Jazz Play Along Vol 038 – [Blue Note] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 39 – Swing Swing Swing | Jazz Play Along Vol 039 – [Swing, Swing, Swing] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 40 – ‘Round Midnight | Jazz Play Along Vol 040 – [‘Round Midnight] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 41 – Body and Soul | Jazz Play Along Vol 041 – [Body and Soul] | Jazz Play Along Vol 041 – [Body and Soul – Jazz Piano Voicings] |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 42 – Blues in All Keys | Jazz Play Along Vol 042 – [Blues In All Keys] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 44 – [Autumn Leaves] | Jazz Play Along Vol 044 – [Autumn Leaves] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 45 – Bill Evans – COMPLETE | Jazz Play Along Vol 045 – [Bill Evans] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 46 – Out Of This World | Jazz Play Along Vol 046 – [Out Of This World] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 47 – Rhythm changes in all keys | Jazz Play Along Vol 047 – [I Got Rhythm Changes In All Keys] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 48 – In a Mellow Tone | Jazz Play Along Vol 048 – [In A Mellow Tone] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 49 – Sugar | Jazz Play Along Vol 049 – [Sugar] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 50 – The Magic Of Miles | Jazz Play Along Vol 050 – [The Magic of Miles] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 51 – Night And Day | Jazz Play Along Vol 051 – [Night and Day] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 52 – Collector’s Items | Jazz Play Along Vol 052 – [Collector’s Items] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 53 – Clifford Brown | Jazz Play Along Vol 053 – [Clifford Brown] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 54 – Maiden Voyage | Jazz Play Along Vol 054 – [Maiden Voyage] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 55 – Yesterdays -Jerome Kern | Jazz Play Along Vol 055 – [Yesterdays – Jerome Kern] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 56 – Thelonious Monk (Book Cd) | Jazz Play Along Vol 056 – [Thelonious Monk] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 57 – Minor Blues in All 12 Keys | Jazz Play Along Vol 057 – [Minor Blues In All Keys] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 58 – Unforgettable Standards | Jazz Play Along Vol 058 – [Unforgettable Standards] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 59 – Invitation | Jazz Play Along Vol 059 – [Invitation] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 60 – Freddie Hubbard | Jazz Play Along Vol 060 – [Freddie Hubbard] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 61 – Burnin’!!! | Jazz Play Along Vol 061 – [Burnin’] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 62 – Wes Montgomery | Jazz Play Along Vol 062 – [Wes Montgomery] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 63 – Tom Harrel | Jazz Play Along Vol 063 – [Tom Harrell] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 64 – Salsa, Latin Jazz | Jazz Play Along Vol 064 – [Salsa, Latin Jazz] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 65 – Four & More | Jazz Play Along Vol 065 – [Four and More] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 66 – Billy Strayhorn | Jazz Play Along Vol 066 – [Billy Strayhorn] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 67 – Tune Up | Jazz Play Along Vol 067 – [Tune Up] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 68 – Giant Steps | Jazz Play Along Vol 069 – [Bird Goes Latin] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 69 – Bird Goes Latin | Jazz Play Along Vol 069 – [Bird Goes Latin] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 70 – Killer Joe | Jazz Play Along Vol 070 – [Killer Joe] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 71 – East of the Sun | Jazz Play Along Vol 071 – [East Of The Sun] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 72 – Street of Dreams | Jazz Play Along Vol 072 – [Street of Dreams] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 73 – Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments | Jazz Play Along Vol 073 – [Oliver Nelson (Stolen Moments)] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 74 – Latin Jazz | Jazz Play Along Vol 074 – [Latin Jazz] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 75 – Countdown To Giant Steps | Jazz Play Along Vol 075 – [Countdown to Giant steps] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 76 – How To Learn Tunes | Jazz Play Along Vol 076 – [How to Learn Tunes] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 77 – Paquito D’Rivera | Jazz Play Along Vol 077 – [Paquito D’Rivera] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 78 – Jazz Holiday Classics | Jazz Play Along Vol 078 – [Jazz Holiday Classics] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 79 – Avalon | Jazz Play Along Vol 079 – [Avalon] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 80 – Indiana | Jazz Play Along Vol 080 – [Indiana] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 81 – Standards And Originals | Jazz Play Along Vol 081 – [Contemporary Standards & Originals] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 82 – Dexter Gordon | Jazz Play Along Vol 082 – [Dexter Gordon] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 83 – Brecker Brothers | Jazz Play Along Vol 083 – [Brecker Brothers] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 84 – Dominant 7th Workout | Jazz Play Along Vol 084 – [Dominant Seventh Workout] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 85 – Tunes You Thought You Knew | Jazz Play Along Vol 085 – [Tunes You Though You Knew (Reharmonized Standards)] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 86 – Shoutin Out – Horace Silver Tunes (Book+CD) | Jazz Play Along Vol 086 – Shoutin’ Out – Horace Silver Tunes | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 87 – When Lights Are Low – Benny Carter | Jazz Play Along Vol 087 – [When Lights Are Low – Benny Carter] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 89 – Darn That Dream | Jazz Play Along Vol 089 – [Darn That Dream] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 90 Odd Times | Jazz Play Along Vol 090 – [Odd Times – Odd Time Signature Songs] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 91-Players Choice | Jazz Play Along Vol 091 – [Player’s Choice] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 92-Lennie Neihaus | Jazz Play Along Vol 092 – [Lennie Neihaus] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 93 What’s new | Jazz Play Along Vol 093 – [What’s New] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 94 Hot Hhouse | Jazz Play Along Vol 094 – [Hot House] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 95- 500 miles high | Jazz Play Along Vol 095 – [500 Miles High] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 96-Latin Quarter | Jazz Play Along Vol 096 – [Latin Quarter] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 97-Standards with strings | Jazz Play Along Vol 097 – [Standards With Strings] | |
| Aebersold, Jamey Jazz Play Along Book + Audio Mp3 – Vol 99 Tadd Dameron | Jazz Play Along Vol 099 – [Tadd Dameron] | |
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Claude Debussy: The 100 most inspiring musicians of all time
The works of French composer Claude Debussy (Achille-Claude Debussy) (b. Aug. 22, 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France—d. March 25, 1918, Paris) have been a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. Debussy developed a highly original system of harmony and musical structure that expressed in many respects the ideals to which the impressionist and symbolist painters and writers of his time aspired.
Early Period
Debussy showed a gift as a pianist by the age of nine. He was encouraged by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, who was associated with the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, and in 1873 he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied the piano and composition, eventually winning in 1884 the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata L’Enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Child ).
While living with his parents in a poverty-stricken suburb of Paris, he unexpectedly came under the patronage of a Russian millionairess, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, who engaged him to play duets with her and her children. He traveled with her to her palatial residences throughout Europe during the long summer vacations at the Conservatory. In Paris during this time he fell in love with a singer, Blanche Vasnier, the beautiful young wife of an architect; she inspired many of his early works.
This early style is well illustrated in one of Debussy’s best-known compositions, Clair de Lune. The title refers to a folk song that was the conventional accompaniment of scenes of the love-sick Pierrot in the French pantomime; and indeed the many Pierrot-like associations in Debussy’s later music, notably in the orchestral work Images (1912) and the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915; originally titled Pierrot fâché avec la lune [“Pierrot Vexed by the Moon”]), show his connections with the circus spirit that also appeared in works by other composers.
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Middle Period
As a holder of the Grand Prix de Rome, Debussy was given a three-year stay at the Villa Medici, in Rome, where, under what were supposed to be ideal conditions, he was to pursue his creative work. Debussy eventually fled from the Villa Medici after two years and returned to Blanche Vasnier in Paris. At this time Debussy lived a life of extreme indulgence. Once one of his mistresses, Gabrielle (“Gaby”) Dupont, threatened suicide. His first wife, Rosalie (“Lily”) Texier, a dressmaker, whom he married in 1899, did in fact shoot herself, though not fatally, and, Debussy himself was haunted by thoughts of suicide.
The main musical influences on Debussy were the works of Richard Wagner and the Russian composers Aleksandr Borodin and Modest Mussorgsky. Wagner fulfi lled the sensuous ambitions not only of composers but also of the symbolist poets and the impressionist painters.
Wagner’s conception of Gesamtkunstwerk (“total art work”) encouraged artists to refi ne upon their emotional responses and to exteriorize their hidden dream states, often in a shadowy, incomplete form; hence the more tenuous nature of the work of Wagner’s French disciples.
It was in this spirit that Debussy wrote the symphonic poem Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894). Other early works by Debussy show his affinity with the English Pre-Raphaelite painters; the most notable of these works is La Damoiselle élue (1888), based on The Blessed Damozel (1850), a poem by the English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
In the course of his career, however, which covered only 25 years, Debussy was constantly breaking new ground. His single completed opera Pelléas et Mélisande (first performed in 1902) demonstrates how the Wagnerian technique could be adapted to portray subjects like the dreamy nightmarish figures of this opera who were doomed to self-destruction.
Debussy and his librettist, Maurice Maeterlinck, declared that they were haunted in this work by the terrifying nightmare tale of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher. The style of Pelléas was to be replaced by a bolder, more highly coloured manner. In his seascape La Mer (1905) he was inspired by the ideas of the English painter J. M.W. Turner and the French painter Claude Monet. In his work, as in his personal life, he was eager to gather experience from every region that the imaginative mind could explore.
Late Period
In 1905 Debussy’s illegitimate daughter, Claude-Emma, was born. He had divorced Lily Texier in 1904 and subsequently married his daughter’s mother, Emma Bardac. For his daughter he wrote the piano suite Children’s Corner (1908).
Debussy’s spontaneity and the sensitive nature of his perception facilitated his acute insight into the child mind, an insight noticeable particularly in Children’s Corner; in the Douze Préludes, two books (1910, 1913; “Twelve Preludes”), for piano; and in the ballet La Boîte à joujoux (1st perf. 1919;
The Box of Toys).
In his later years, it is the pursuit of illusion that marks Debussy’s instrumental writing, especially the strange, otherworldly Cello Sonata. This noble bass instrument takes on, in chameleon fashion, the character of a violin, a flute, and even a mandolin.
Evolution of His Work
Debussy’s music marks the first of a series of attacks on the traditional language of the 19th century. He did not believe in the stereotyped harmonic procedures of the 19th century, and indeed it becomes clear from a study of mid-20th-century music that the earlier harmonic methods were being followed in an arbitrary, academic manner.
Debussy’s inquiring mind similarly challenged the traditional orchestral usage of instruments. He rejected the traditional dictum that string instruments should be predominantly lyrical. The pizzicato scherzo from his String Quartet (1893) and the symbolic writing for the violins in La Mer, conveying the rising storm waves, show a new conception of string colour. Similarly, he saw that woodwinds need not be employed for fireworks displays; they provide, like the human voice, wide varieties of colour.
Debussy also used the brass in original colour transformations. In fact, in his music, the conventional orchestral construction, with its rigid woodwind, brass, and string departments, finds itself undermined or split up in the manner of the Impressionist painters.
Ultimately, each instrument becomes almost a soloist, as in a vast chamber-music ensemble. Finally, Debussy applied an exploratory approach to the piano, the evocative instrument par excellence.
In his last works, the piano pieces En blanc et noir (1915; In Black and White) and in the Douze Études (1915; “Twelve Études”), Debussy had branched out into modes of composition later to be developed in the styles of Stravinsky and the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It is certain that he would have taken part in the leading movements in composition of the years following World War I. His life, however, was tragically cut short by cancer.
The Best of Debussy
Pianist: Pascal Rogé
Track List:
(0:00) Rêverie (4:54) Pour le piano: Sarabande (11:29) Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune (17:21) Estampes: Jardins sous la pluie (20:49) Deux Arabesques: Andantino con moto (24:45) Images Book 1 – Reflets dans l’eau (29:45) Childrens Corner: Golliwogg’s Cakewalk (32:43) Preludes: Cathedrale engloutie (39:13) Danses sacree et danse profane (49:20) Printemps: Modere
(55:29) Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1:05:20) Sonata for Cello & Piano: I Prologue (1:10:32) Violin Sonata: Intermède- fantasque et léger. II (1:14:39) Nocturnes: Fetes (1:21:17) Images for orchestra – 2a. Iberia- Par Les Rues (1:28:27) La Mer – 1. De l’aube à midi sur la mer. Très lent (1:37:02) La Mer – 2. Jeux de vagues. Allegro (1:43:15) String Quartet No. 1, Op 10. Assez vif et bien rythmé