Debussy

[I Cosmo I]

Any Debussy fans? My favorite song from him is Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, but i also enjoy listing to Minstrels.  

[flutopia]

I like Syrinx for flute alone. It looks real easy, but its one of the hardest pieces. Far too commonly played though, it gets tiresome quickly.  

[Septomor]

I love his preludes, they're just mystical. We're playing Clair de Lune for marching band. Sounds weird, but it's awesome.  

[Keakealani]

Man is condemned to be free. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Haha, I love Debussy...I guess my current favourite of his would be Rêverie for piano or La Mer for orchestra - both really highlight the sheer genius of Debussy's impressionism. It's amazing that music can be so metaphorical and yet so literal.

Edit: oh, I should probably also mention that we just sang Salut Printemps, which was a LOT of fun, even though it's a challenging piece. I love Debussy chansons

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ~George Bernard Shaw

 

[LadyBherd]

ooh! i'm currently working on golliwogg's cakewalk! it's so fun to play!!
but apart from that i'm not really too crazy about his music, i have a cd or two of him, but he's not really my favourite. i guess i have yet to find the right pieces  

[Aureleid]

I love Debussy! I think one of my favorites would have to be Beau Soir. I sang it for my vocal jury last semester, and I fell madly in love with that piece.  

[Dainty Sparkler]

I'm singing a piece by Debussy right now- it is also called Clair de Lune, but it isn't the one that he's most famous for. It's from his "Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse". So beautiful. Debussy is a genius. 3nodding  

[Geograce]

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My favorite song from him is Clair De Lune,

I LOVE that song. My sister played it (she also plays piano, but is in college for her music ed major soon.) Anyway, that song is great.  

[`Kel`]

Played it last concert in May in my Orchestra, it was fun.  

[Le Aristocrat]

Ooh, I love Debussy. My favourites are the Nocturnes for Orchestra, the Estampes, Suite Bergamasque, the Preludes (book one, specifically) and Children's Corner.  

[I Cosmo I]

Le Aristocrat

Ooh, I love Debussy. My favourites are the Nocturnes for Orchestra, the Estampes, Suite Bergamasque, the Preludes (book one, specifically) and Children's Corner.

clair de lune is from Suite Bergamasque right?  

[metamorphize]

My personal favourite is the Engulfed Cathedral. Or the Sunken Cathedral. I've seen it called both. We did the band version of it, which was pretty lame, but the piano version is beautiful.  

[Marie-Cris]

heart ... Autumn leaves fall and are swept out of sight ...

I love Debussy. When I was a kid my mum would put on a 101 Strings CD ((that has about 14 tracks XD)) when we went to bed so I would lie awake until after Clair de Lune; I just couldn't go to sleep until I'd heard it.

I've got the 4-disc album La Mer stored on my laptop ((lovingly burned from the Elder School of Music Library ... I know, shame)). Children's Corner is another one of my favourites, as well as Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; was incredibly happy when that was one of the pieces used for the audio question in our History of 20th Century Music exam.

... So are the memories of love that we knew ... heart

 

[Savoy]

Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans -- three really lush choral pieces <3 Really lovely and kind of random... I can't remember the movement names at the moment, but they're rather like:

1. A love poem describing the beauty of the writer's love.
2. "When I hear the tambourine sound, I do not lift my head from my pillow."
3. Winter is a villain, not like wonderful summer ^^x  

[Keakealani]

Man is condemned to be free. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Debussy was an absolute genius when it comes to his choral/vocal sets - I haven't heard too many of them, but they always impress me, regardless. I have to say, he knows how to shape music in a way few composer can rival.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ~George Bernard Shaw