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Debussy "Twenty Four Piano Prelude" Harmony Study

Posted on:2015-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z W ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2175330431469328Subject:Music
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Debussy is a composer, innovator, has been called "impressionist" music originator, its music on the United States and Europe had a profound impact on the music. His music combines oriental music, dance and jazz in Spain creative approach, the use of French impressionist art practices, to carve out a harmonic language has its own unique personality. His music interspersed with Russia, Spain and Eastern ethnic music styles, the development of a unique musical language styles, such as:the melody of loss and the use of short motives; ancient natural tuning, Eastern pentatonic, artificial whole tone musical scale use; three chord chord extensions nine, eleven chords use; additional sound, the sound is omitted, and forty-five octave chords chord and special use; musical structure also tend to liberalization, paragraph blur, music presents a different picture and set characteristics. These are different from the traditional music of their style, personality development unique musical language approach and methods.In its24Piano Preludes of Debussy’s unique musical style has been most vividly language development and use of multi-tone tonality development of both the size of the inheritance tuning, but also the use of old and five natural tuning pentatonic scale, the whole tone scale artificial form different tuning features; rich harmonic language three degrees, three degrees of non-overlapping chords, additional sound and make use of complex chords showing diverse musical language sound; colorful harmonies be breaking tradition but as I used to form a variety of harmonic language, the language of music and sound to perform a variety of possible increases. These are modern harmonic language reflects their style of music, but also its unique music style show. This article from the interpretation of several aspects of its twenty-four piano preludes.
Keywords/Search Tags:Debussy, harmonies, modal, scale
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