Debussy´s Pierrot: Four Songs of Youth

When considering the initial styles discussed in this course, it is easy to classify composers by their time or duration. Bach played in the Baroque period; Mozart was apparently a classical composer. Classification is becoming increasingly difficult as we get deeper into the classroom and approaching the present age. He did not like classical style very much, but he was not pure romantic. He is somewhere in between. Debussy buried a similar space during the two periods.

Debussy was born in the family and its means were small, so we could not look up the surroundings. Claude 's father, Manuel Akil, was ignorant and had alcoholism. His mother, Victorian, was busy raising her daughter and four sons while working as a tailor. The living environment of Debussis was extremely harsh, and as the family grew, it moved many times in the 1860s. As a little boy Claude did not go to school until 11 years old. This may partially explain the independence of thinking and the obedience of Debussy. Another characteristic of his personality is his extreme curiosity and experience transformed into his gentle and dreamy masterpiece like 1905's "Reflets dans L'Eau" (water reflection) It is a constant pursuit of.

At the end of 1880, Debussy continued accompaniment of Marie Morrow-Santi's singing class during the study at the Conservatory; he was in this position for four years. One of the members of the class was Marie Vasnier; Debussy liked her very much and urged him to write: he wrote 27 songs devoted to her in a 7-year partnership. She is a wife of a famous civil servant Henri Bagneier, much younger than her husband. She soon became Debussy's mistress and his museum. Whether Vasnier is satisfied to accept his wife and young students is not clear, or he does not know it at all, but he and Debussy still maintain a good state, and he is a composer's career Continuing to encourage.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), mainly responsible for setting up French music with a new course, will mature in the atmosphere of this "Renaissance". Debussy's young work reveals the influence of Chabrier and Faure, especially the latter. It is essentially a diatonic, but it is a precedent for a young composer seeking a new tone way. However, it is not affected by the traditional functional system. The opening of the piano La La Cathedrale engloutie (the cathedral sunk in 1910) is a model (eg people). Up to Measurement 7 there is some true melody. It begins to appear almost unconsciously from the rest of the open harmonic complex, where they are reduced to a single E multiplied octave (Measurement 6). after that. This doubled E becomes the first note of a more continuous linear statement and is also used as an associated pedal point from 7 to 13.