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- What chords does Debussy use?
- What is Debussy most famous piece?
- What Debussy said about Clair de Lune?
- Is Debussy A jazz?
What chords does Debussy use?
Debussy and Ravel used chords containing ninths, elevenths, and thirteenths, sometimes with chromatic alterations to those upper extensions. In bar 15 of Debussy's “Clair de lune” from his Suite bergamasque, Debussy uses an E m E ♭ m 9 chord with the 9th of the chord in the melody.
What is Debussy most famous piece?
La Mer (1905)
La Mer is Debussy's most popular and widely performed concert work.
What Debussy said about Clair de Lune?
Concerning the second section of Clair de Lune, Debussy said, “The left-hand arpeggios should be fluid, mellow, drowned in pedal, as if played by a harp on a background of strings” (From Debussy Remembered by Roger Nichols, Amadeus Press, 1992).
Is Debussy A jazz?
Known for his use of the pentatonic scale, unprepared modulations, bitonality and unresolving successions of dissonant chords, it is no surprise Debussy's name has been associated with the development of jazz.
