Debussy Flashcards
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dates
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1862-1918
2
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born in
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saint germain en laye, france
3
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father was a___
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china shop owner
4
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mother was a
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seamstress
5
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early education music
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began piano lessons at age seven, entered Paris conservatoire. Aspired to be a concert pianist, but interest soon turned to composition
6
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awarded the____
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prix de Rome for the cantata l’enfant prodigue
7
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enjoyed a career as
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a pianist, collaborative artist, conductor
8
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several scandals in
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romantic relationshps
9
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employed as_______ in 1880
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piano teacher for family of Nadezhda von Mech, Tchaikovsky’s patron
10
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attended the ________, exposed to asian art and music, including Javanese gamelan ensemble
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Paris world exposition
11
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died
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of cancer, march 25 1918 just prior to the end of world war 1
12
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musical style and contributions
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- highly original and innovative, influential in both France and internationally
- set poetry to music
- influenced by impressionist painters, parallels drawn in choice of subject matter, instrumental color, subtle nuances, and obscuring of metric pulse
- like the symbolist poets, he experimented with unorthodox approches to grammar and syntax through formal structure and phrasing, suggesting rather than depicting
- explored western and non western scale systems such as whole tone, pentatonic, modal scales
- innovative approches to harmony
- carried use of rhythm
- programmatic elements
- drawn to mythological subjects
- returned to sonata form in later works
13
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genres
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- orchestral, chamber, piano, opera, vocal, ballet
