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Melody and Harmony
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Melody and Harmony
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What do we find when we examine the way Dubussy treats his opening flute melody?
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He repeats it unchanged with an accompaniment of fluttering tremolo string (bar 11-14)
Lengthens the first note and decorates the melody of bar 3 with demisemiquaver triplets (bar 21-22) Ends phrase with a fast version of the first bar (bar 26-27) Slows the whole melody down (bar 79-82 and bar 86-89) |
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what is the ost characteristic feature of Debussy's style?
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The use of whole-tone scale
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Is there semitone in the scale?
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No because each pitch is one whole tone away from it's neighbour to give it tonal direction
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What are the typical features involved?
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Chromaticism
Free use of tritone Whole-tone element Ornamentation Arabesque |
