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DEBUSSY CONTEXT - Coggle Diagram
DEBUSSY CONTEXT
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
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French impressionist painters = Monet, Pissarro - originated 'impressions' in their artwork
Debussy wrote music around natural features - wind, clouds or the sea
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composers mainly wanted to find any type of music that didn't have any correlation to 19th century German Romantic music - Spain became a new mass focus
many of his compositions are miniatures - short piano pieces - he used titles for them but didn't want the listener to be too restricted to them - he wanted listeners to completely immerse themselves in the image he is illustrating in his pieces
he was very proud of his French heritage - he commonly used French directions in his music to reflect this
ESTAMPES
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descriptive music - all 3 pieces have descriptive titles + its music is precisely descriptive - the titles act as a starting point for the musical style
brevity - romantic composers worked towards their pieces being very extreme in length - Debussy + his contemporaries decided to focus on smaller pieces - melodies were short
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