Oriental Element Of Debussy's Orchestral Music 'La Mer'

Debussy's music creation was the typical representative work that absorbed many kinds of artistic aesthetic ideology, and fused the East and West culture spirit. 'La Mer' was his most large-scale orchestral music, which contained many musical personality characteristics. And it was the representative work during Debussy's creation maturity. The paper taked 'La Mer' for example, and discussed the personal characteristic that Debussy fused the artistic aesthetic ideology of the oriental painting art and music creation, and analyzed oriental gamelan music elements and other factors of 'La Mer'.'La Mer' reflected China classical aesthetic ideology, especially the aesthetic ideology consistency that China ancient scholars and painters reflected on the performance of natural landscape ,which was 'harmony between the heaven and human ', 'Sound outside what the string is making between the lines ' and 'approach determined by figure'. Its music reflected gamelan creative skills in many aspects, for example, the use of continuous tone and fixed voice type, the texture counterpoint imitation, the similarity of pitch and the harmony, etc. It could be seen that Debussy once studied Javanese gamelan music thoroughly on the analysis of 'La Mer' music ontology. Debussy choosed Japanese printer—Katsushika Hokusai's 'surfing in Kanagawa' as cover on the publication of 'La Mer', it was reflected that on the one hand he liked Japan Ukiyoe, on the other hand his work had painting factors. The paper discussed the reflection of 'La Mer' above three aspects of oriental elements, and analyzed it from the cultural and technical perspective, and tried to find internal and external factors influenced by oriental elements.It was a successful model that Debussy fused eastern and western culture and brother art. The inspiration could be given from the paper.