Listening Guide for Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
Genre: Character Piece
From: Ternary ABA'
0:00 Melody A
- Simple and elegant
- Single notes in melody, not a lot of chords
0:33 Repeated Melody A
1:02 Expansion
- No longer a single note melody
- Chords added to the main notes of the melody
- Phrases are straying from original melody
- Getting louder and more dramatic
- Simple in the bass, more complicated in the melody
1:54 Melody B
- Lots of arpeggios is left hand
- More complex than melody A
- Still elegant
2:25 Melody B repeated
- Played an octave higher
- As melody ascends and descends, the dynamics become louder and quieter respectively
2:54 Melody descends and transitions
3:10 Part of Melody B repeated again quietly
3:23 Melody A returns
- softly
4:03 Phrases of Melody A repeated
- Phrases are lengthened out and more dramatic
- Played at a lower, more quiet dynamic
4:35 Chords begin to be played in arpeggios in the bass with the simple, single notes of melody played above it
4:56 Music fades out in soft, lengthened phrases of Melody A arpeggios
- Piece ends in two soft, long, and elegant arpeggios
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