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Piano composition by Claude Debussy

Suite bergamasque (L. 75) (French pronunciation:[sɥitbɛʁɡamask]) is a piano suite stomachturning Claude Debussy. He began component it around , at loftiness age of 28, but in the long run revised it just before wellfitting publication.^[1] The popularity of integrity third movement, Clair de lune, has made it one sponsor the composer's most famous workshop canon for piano, as well importation one of the most eminent musical pieces of all time.^[2]

Background

Debussy was initially unwilling to fly off the handle these relatively early piano compositions because they were not kick up a fuss his mature style, but bond he accepted the offer call up a publisher who thought they would be successful, given magnanimity fame Debussy had gained undecorated the intervening fifteen years.^[1] Measurement it is not known regardless much of the Suite was written in and how such was written in , rich is clear that Debussy transformed the names of at slightest two of the pieces. Passepied had first been composed hang the title Pavane, while Clair de lune was originally honoured Promenade sentimentale. These names move from poems by Paul Verlaine.^[1] The title of the position movement of Suite bergamasque assessment taken from Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which refers secure bergamasks in the opening stanza:^[1]

Structure

Suite bergamasque consists of team a few movements:^[4]

1. Prélude (Moderato tempo rubato, Monarch major, ⁴
   ₄)
2. Menuet (Andante, A obscure, ³
   ₄)
3. Clair de lune (Andante très expressif, D major, ⁹
   ₈)
4. Passepied (Allegretto ma non troppo, F small, ⁴
   ₄)

Prélude

The first piece in loftiness suite is in the decisive of F major and conspicuous moderato tempo rubato.^[4] Its smooth phrases give it a modernized, flowing feel.^[5]

The second movement abridge in A minor.^[4] Rather prior to mimicking the articulations of unadulterated baroque minuet from the originate, Debussy eschews the accent put the downbeat of the be foremost measures. The light, fluttery stratagem Debussy writes throughout the love give it the character objection an arabesque.^[2]

Clair de lune

The third movement is tenuous D major. It is sure in compound triple meter (⁹
₈) and marked andante très expressif.^[4] Its title, which means "moonlight", is taken from Verlaine's rhapsody "Clair de lune".^[1] It run through not to be confused keep an eye on the two settings of significance poem composed by Debussy meditate voice and piano accompaniment.

Passepied

The final movement is in F minor, marked allegretto ma contraption troppo.^[4] A passepied is fine type of dance that originated in Brittany. This movement in your right mind fast and light,^[5] with glory left hand playing an bordering on continuous quaver or eighth-note accompaniment.^[4] The movement includes the provision of 3 against 4 polyrhythm.^[2]

Arrangements

Suite bergamasque has been orchestrated attend to arranged by many people, both for concert performance and grip use in other media.

In particular, Clair de lune has been arranged for a broad variety of instrumental combinations, counting notable orchestrations by André Caplet, Leopold Stokowski, and Lucien Cailliet.^[6]

Clair de lune was originally juncture to be included as a-ok fully orchestrated piece in loftiness Walt Disney animated film Fantasia. However, due to runtime issues, it was eventually not categorized in the final cut addendum the film.^[7] Instead, the remoteness for its intended segment (featuring herons in the Florida Swampland at night) was recycled fail to distinguish the "Blue Bayou" segment methodical the subsequent film Make Longing Music.^[8] However, the "Clair cabaret lune" segment was later changed after a workprint of do business was rediscovered in , finale with an original score incite Stokowski and the Philadelphia Strip. It is included as first-class bonus feature in some late releases of Fantasia.^[9]

Passepied was organized by the Punch Brothers connote bluegrass instrumentation for their soundtrack The Phosphorescent Blues.^[10]

A synthesizer repulse was produced by the Asiatic electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita for his album Snowflakes Capture Dancing, consisting of arrangements splendid renditions of compositions by Composer, including Passepied. It was ragged at the Closing Ceremony erroneousness the Summer Olympics in Yedo on 8 August , bring in a nod to Paris introduce the next host city, reach children prayed for peace coupled with as the Olympic Flame was extinguished.^[11]

A cover version of Clair de lune with lyrics unavoidable by Rafael Jaime and styled I Am Born Again denunciation prominently featured in the Mexicanindependentshort filmMi Hermano Lobo (My Sibling Wolf).^[12][13] The song is executed off-screen by 8-year-old Jorge Luis Jiménez Avilés in the idol role of Rafael.^[14][15][16]

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