The piece opens with a Flute solo, so your answer could be anything besides a flute.
Guitar, Drumset, Berry Sax...ect jk. Instruments that are featured are Oboe English Horn, Flute, Harp, Clarinet, horn, bassoon, and strings. Instruments that are not super featured are mostly the other brass instruments which rest forever or are tacet.
The Prelude to The Afternoon of A Faun is a work for full orchestra. One person could not play it.
Symphonic poem
Debussy's Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faun is an orchestra piece in the impressionist style.
Well, its a good brand of Alto Sax.
Guitar, Drumset, Berry Sax...ect jk. Instruments that are featured are Oboe English Horn, Flute, Harp, Clarinet, horn, bassoon, and strings. Instruments that are not super featured are mostly the other brass instruments which rest forever or are tacet.
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The Prelude to The Afternoon of A Faun is a work for full orchestra. One person could not play it.
Symphonic poem
Debussy's Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faun is an orchestra piece in the impressionist style.
Well, its a good brand of Alto Sax.
French poet Stéphane Mallarmé wrote the poem "L'Après-midi d'un faune," which served as inspiration for the music composition "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" by Claude Debussy. The poem recounts the sensual daydreams of a faun in a woodland setting.
Claude Debussy's Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
1) Claire De Lune 2) The Prelude to the Afternoon of A Fawn 3) La Mer
"The music of this prelude is a very free illustration of Mallarmé's beautiful poem. By no means does it claim to be a synthesis of it. Rather there is a succession of scenes through which pass the desires and dreams of the faun in the heat of the afternoon. Then, tired of pursuing the timorous flight of nymphs and naiads, he succumbs to intoxicating sleep, in which he can finally realize his dreams of possession in universal Nature." (Claude Debussy)
Many opinions, so here's mine: Claude-Achille Debussy was experimenting with a new tonality, the whole-note scale, where every step is a whole note (the major scale runs whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half). It's a marvellous effect. Pieces that come quickly to mind are: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Claire de Lune (Moonlight) the Girl with the Flaxen Hair la Mer (the Sea) a string quartet Two close contemporaries exploring similar kinds of sound were Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré.
The Prelude was created in 1799.