Claude Debussy Essay

Music affects our emotions and has much to do with our everyday lives. Music has always and will be a part of my life. I would have to say that without music there is no life -- something is missing in our lives without music. If there were no music society we would only have people speaking to each other, and there would be no entertainment. The form of musical entertainment that I attended was the opera, La Boheme, composed by Giacommo Puccini and Libretto by Giuseppe and Luigi Illica. The opera took place at The New City Opera on November 10, 2001. La Boheme takes place in 1830, 19th century Paris around Christmas time. This opera tells the tragic love story of a young Bohemian, Rodolfo, who finds a love interest in

Claude Monet is one of the most familiar and best loved of all Western artists. His images of poppy fields, poplar trees, water lilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar to people who have never seen the original paintings and may never have visited an art gallery. Monet's works have won a place in the affection of the general public that seems almost without parallel. (Rachman, 4) In the decades since his death in 1926, Monet's work has been intensely studied by a variety of art critics. However, none of his works have been as deeply studied as those done in Giverny, in the early twentieth century. During this time Monet's paintings, which focused on specific subject matter from various viewpoints,

In the passage by Igor Stravinsky, he uses not only comparison and contrast, but also language to convey his point of view about the conductors of the time and their extreme egotism. Stravinsky believes that conductors exploit the music for their own personal gain, so rather, he looks on them in a negative light.

acques LeCoq, a French practitioner and Augusto Boal, a Brazilian practitioner both aim to take their actors and the audience on a journey of discovery. Both Practitioners believed in ‘Freeing’ the body and making it ‘De-mechanicalized’ to enable full interpretation. LeCoq and Boal both use emotion, imagination, extensive body movement, playfulness and political matters to create their methods of theatrical practice.

With such a refine way of making music in the 19th century, Claude Debussy strayed from the norm with his strange musical innovations. It was apparent from an early age just how gifted Debussy was musically. By age 11 he sent to Paris Conservatory, and by age 22 won the Prix de Rome. With such musical accomplishments, he was able to settle himself as a leading figure in French music. Incorporating such nontraditional scales and tonal structures into his work provided him with a foundation that would later establish him as a founder of musical impression in the late 19th and 20th century (Claude Debussy Biography).

Nicholas Turchiano MU-106 Professor Murphy 2/27/18 Achille-Claude Debussy better known as just Claude Debussy was a French pianist and composer from the 1800s. Claude was known to be a major force in the music world. Claude was known to use his own unique style when writing his pieces that helped shape modern music. Claude was known to change the style of his pieces throughout his career so that no two pieces would sound the same.

Popular music during the 1890’s to the 1920’s reflected on the attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavior of the American population. Ranging from sentimental ballads to ragtime, the entire world was soon overcome with the power and complexity of the revelations happening in music. The interruption of World War II seemed to be a distraction; however it introduced the true twentieth century culture. Claude Debussy’s, the face of impressionism, career began in the mid-to late 1880s was at its peak of influence. Although Debussy saw competing composer Richard Wagner’s music as too aggressive and absurd, his style was respected for its impact on the Romantic period.

Claude Debussy’s gift in playing the piano and producing opera has touched not just composers, but music lovers around the world. Without the music of Debussy, so many influential artists would lack knowledge in classical music. His piece, “Clair de lune”, (defined as moonlight) is considered one of his more favored musical compositions. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that this is the, “third movement of Debussy’s Suite bergamasque”. The compositions importance music wise has to do with more than just those who enjoy the classical genre; Thousands of responses from everyday people on youtube prove this. Individuals have shown their love for this song by commenting things such as, “I'm not a fan of classical music, but I love this”. Another

     Eugene Victor Debs was the most well known as a leader of the American Socialist Party. Eugene Debs had no executive positions but he was most popular leader of the socialist movements in American history. He was a revolutionary and he wanted to establish a socialism in America.

His teacher Marmontel is quoted as saying “Debussy isn’t very fond of the piano, but he loves music.” From this one may gather that even at the Conservatoire Debussy was aware of the limitations of the instrument. There are descriptions of him launching himself at the piano, overdoing every effect, as though moved by a deep hatred. On the other hand Fargue remembered his playing in the 1890s “he cradled it [the piano], talked softly to it, like a rider to his horse, a shepherd to his flock or a thresher to his oxen.” It is significant that on this occasion he was performing the uncompleted score of Pelleas. Among the varied accounts of his playing, agreement is reached on only two points: that it was like nobody else’s, and that it had about it an orchestral quality. At all events, the two approaches outlined above, at the extremes of boldness and refinement, both display and unwillingness to treat the piano as it had been treated in the past, and a determination to subdue it to his

The young composer's many musical activities during these vacations included playing four-hand pieces with von Meck at the piano, giving music lessons to her children, and performing in private concerts with some of her musician friends. Despite von Meck's closeness to Tchaikovsky, the Russian master appears to have had minimal effect on Debussy. In September 1880 she sent Debussy's Danes bohemians for Tchaikovsky's perusal. A month later Tchaikovsky wrote back to her: "It is a very pretty piece, but it is much too short. Not a single idea is expressed fully, the form is terribly shriveled, and it lacks unity." Debussy did not publish the piece, and the manuscript remained in the von Meck family; it was eventually sold to B. Schott's Shone in Mainz, and published by them in 1932. A greater influence was Debussy's close friendship with Marie-Blanche Vanier, a singer he met when he began working as an accompanist to earn some money, embarking on an eight-year affair together. She and her husband, Parisian civil servant Henri, gave Debussy emotional and professional

From the year 1890 to around the year 1940, there became a variety of new changes to communities and the artists within communities across Europe and America. During this time, artists found a heightened sense of self-awareness and as a result, they created new developments. This era became known as modernism. The role of musicians and music during this era was different than it was in the previous Romantic era. Famous composers such as Bach and Beethoven whose pieces were based on principle and logic inspired the musicians during the modernism period to abandon these standards.

The comparability of Modeste Mussorgsky, a revolutionary Russian composer of the 19th Century, to the songwriting powerhouse of John Lennon & Paul McCartney appears relatively discreet. This is due to their vastly discrepant favored genres, and eras in which they were popular. Attempting to compare the likes of these musicians seems somewhat abstract, due to their obvious dissimilarities, but at a closer glance, with heavy consideration of their musical contexts and the eras from which they emerge, strong correlation of the two is apparent. Association can definitely be established between the two, due to their underlying common characteristics, and by selecting a specific work of each composer, deeper understandings can be drawn through their

Let’s first begins with who Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was. Gustave Courbet was a famous French painter. Courbet was born in Ornans, France on June 10th of 1819. Ornans, France is a filled with forests and pasture’s perfect for realist paintings. At the age of 14 Courbet was already in art training receiving lessons from Pere Baud a former student of a neo-classical painter named Baron Gros. Courbet’s parents hoped he would go off and study law when he moved out in 1837. To there misfortune he had enrolled in at the art academy. At the art academy Courbet received lessons from Flajoulot another famous neo-classicist. At twenty years old Gustave Courbet went to Paris, the European center for art, political,

avel and Debussy influenced and respected each other, but their relationship suffered at the hands of critics eager to denigrate Ravel in favor of Debussy. From around 1900 until his death, Debussy was considered France's greatest living composer. Ravel assumed the mantle only after Debussy's death. Today, Debussy