MUS 121 Lecture : Claude Debussy

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27 Feb 2018

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Calude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Background

o Believed music existed only for pleasure and to appeal to the senses

o Impressionism – movement in which painters sought to capture the visual

impression, rather than the literal reality of a subject

• L’Apres-idi d’u faue

o Translates to The Afternoon of a Faune

o Poem by Stephane Mallarme

o Debussy based an orchestral work on this poem

o Choreography was later added by Nijinsky

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