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Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
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Instrumental Music Mind Map on Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, created by Alec Hewstone on 17/06/2013.
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Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Structure
Ternary with coda
A - 1-54
B - 55-78
A - 79-93
Coda - 94-110
Rhythm and Meter
Difficult to identify meter
The whole piece has a sense of freedom and rhythmic flexibility
Frequent changes of meter
Triplets (bar 1)
Cross rhythms (bar 67)
Melody
Opening melody was revolutionary
Opening two bars are chromatic
Bar three is diatonic and covers an octave
Melody is mainly conjunct with few leaps
The rest of the piece is a melodic evolution of the opening motif
Instrumentation
Large sized orchestra
Strings use tremolo
Harp glissando and harmonics
Horns sometimes muted
Texture
Mostly melody dominated homophony
Opening is monophonic
Doubling of instruments is common
Tonality
Tonality is unclear throughout
At the end it settles in E major
The opening is chromatic outlining a tritone - provides no sense of key
Harmony
Non-functional chords
Harmony creates musical 'colour'
Many 7th chords
Chord extensions 9th, 11th and 13th
Chromatic harmony
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