The musical composition I have picked up is ‘Clair De Lune’. It is a Western classical composition by a French musician Claude Debussy in 1890 and was published in 1905 as a part of Debussy’s ‘Suite Bergamasque’. It is one of the most famous and recognizable composition by Debussy that has also found its way to pop culture many times. Clair de lune, meaning “moonlight” in French, was originally titled Promenade Sentimentale when composed in 1890. (Chaffin, R., Apr 2007) After listening to the piece
“Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in St. Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children and homeschooled by his mother. He came from a very humble upbringing, his mother (Victorine Manoury) was a seamstress, his father (Manuel-Achille Debussy) his father took on any job he could that most likely didn’t have much prestige. The family moved to Paris, France in 1867 when Debussy was just a mere five years old. In the southern part of France
upon me for this because it was different from what every other person was doing at the time. I recognized that Debussy’s style of music was also criticized much in the same way as mine was one day while I was listening to my favorite piece Clair De Lune. The song in my mind is simply perfection, the harmonies all flow beautifully but, according to others it is not what they want to hear because it is considered to be vague and lacks image. My struggle at being restricted to these so called rules of
“Clair De Lune” shows a spectacular difference between the two. Though both pieces were written for solo string instruments, Bach’s Suite is actually a dance. The Six Suites for unaccompanied Violoncello (“Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude” is the very first piece of the six movements) is mainly composed of arpeggiated chords (a chord that is played as a sequence of descending or ascending notes) and is the best known movement from the entire set of suites and is frequently heard in films. “Clair De Lune” is the
by Professor Wright, MUSI 112: Listening to Music, Yale University “Claude Debussy (1862-1918).” Music Academy Online “Influential People: Claude Debussy.” FUGUE FOR THOUGHT, WordPress, 17 Feb. 2016 Wright, Craig. 22.2 - Claude Debussy's "Claire De Lune". Yale,
filmmaker who used a variety of camera angles and clean editing that evolved films toady. During the early 1900’s, the advancement of camera placement and editing techniques, such as transitions and parallel editing, between George Méliès’ Voyage dans la Lune (1902) and Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1903) influenced today’s approach in creating space and continual time in movies. Camera angle and placement was one aspect of film that greatly developed between Méliès and Porter, creating a sense
Achille-Claude Debussy was one of the most renowned French composers who stimulated the music of the twentieth-century. Debussy’s life experiences have given an emotional and relatable truth in his work. Works such as Clair de Lune, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and La Mer are great achievements of Debussy that are the most familiar today. Debussy is worth reviewing because he uniquely structured his compositions that served as a base for musicians in the past, and will easily continue to motivate
France during the 1800s was a dangerous war ground filled with distrust and greed for power. Political disputes, bloodshed, prejudice, and more tore France apart. In 1871, the Franco-Prussian war resulted in France being defeated and humiliated. The war France thought it easily could win resulted in France’s Third Republic ceding their provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, the victor (Krieger p.171). Soon after France’s defeat in war, the people of Paris formed a radical group called the “Commune
Significant improvements in space discovery opened many opportunities for filmmakers to go to infinity and beyond. Outer space has been portrayed on the silver screen countless times, from Star Wars, the epic space opera series, to Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon), the iconic French silent film, to Gravity, the Academy Award-nominated contemporary thriller. After the moon landing in 1969, the motion picture industry began to produce more stories about space travel; thus, a wide variety of
Near the close of the nineteenth century, a new movement had emerged in European classical music. Rooted most heavily in France and lasting till the mid twentieth century, Europe witnessed what we call 'Impressionism', an idea of music described wonderfully by Oscar Thompson in 1937 as he states that the aim of such art was to "suggest rather than to depict; to mirror not the object, but the emotional response to the object; to interpret a fugitive impression rather than to seize upon and fix the
At the end of the Romantic period, everything shifted. Art started moving towards the different ‘isms’ and music developed into a time which many classified as “modern”. A movement that started in the 20th century, modern classical music took a turn that surprised many. After a look at the history, music, and composers during the Modern music period, one can better understand it. Similar to the path that modern art took, contemporary classical music broke away from tradition. The composers felt the
and created two new films. The first was titled The Cat Returns released in 2002, which involved a high school girl named Haru who saves a cat from being hit by a bus. It is later revealed that the cat is actually a prince named Lune. Lune 's father asks Haru to marry Lune and she is brought to a cat kingdom. When shes realizes that she can not leave she receives help from two statues to help her escape. The second film after The Cat Returns was Lord Howl 's Castle or Howl 's Moving Castle as it
during the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose music focuses on suggestion and atmosphere, "conveying the moods and emotions aroused by the subject rather than a detailed tone‐picture". Clair de Lune was one of the most-loved piano pieces by Claude Debussy. This piece speaks of “au calme clair de lune triste et beau” (the still moonlight sad and lovely). It also describes “charmante masques et bergamasques”, which may have inspired the name of the whole suite. “Bergamasques” refers to masked festivals
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis The book I read for my book report was a fiction book called The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis. This is the third book in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series and it was published in 1954. The story takes place in the make-believe land of Calormen and the also make-believe land of Narnia. It's about a boy that runs away from his life of slavery and his adventure to come. I found this book to be adventurous, exciting, and suspesful (to an extent). It shows
Differences in Geometry Geometry is the branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of space. Geometry is classified between two separate branches, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry. Being based off different postulates, theorems, and proofs, Euclidean Geometry deals mostly with two-dimensional figures, while Demonstrative, Analytic, Descriptive, Conic, Spherical, Hyperbolic, are Non-Euclidean, dealing with figures containing more than two-dimensions. The main difference between
Screen [online], 51(4), 80-84 [viewed 25 February 2011]. Available from: http://www.screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/4/80.full.pdf Filmography Leaving the Lumiére Factory, 1895. Directed by Lumiére Brothers. France: Lumiére, Le Voyage á la lune [A Trip to the Moon], 1902. Directed by George Méliès. France: Star Film. Mary Jane’s Mishap, 1903. Directed by G.A Smith. UK: G.A.S. Films & Warwick Trading Company. The Birth of a Nation, 1915. Directed by D.W Griffith. USA: David W. Griffith
ballrooms, along with respected theatres and concert halls. Although Claude Debussy was an amazing orchestral composer, his works seemed to agree most with the piano. Today, one of the most known pieces of piano repertoire is the piano suite, Claire de Lune. Many composers started to become inspired by Debussy and thus The Impressionist Era was born. In the later years to come Debussy would have never guessed his music would be so powerful and destructive. In 1876 unrest soon came to France, and
The poem Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T.S. Eliot creates a sense of emptiness by showing the moral failings of society and the loss of memory that is present throughout the world. Eliot creates this sense of a lack of morals by showing the thieving child who does not hesitate to reach out and steal a toy running along the pier, pocketing it without any reaction. Then Eliot mentioned that he could see nothing behind the child’s eye.” With this quote, Eliot uses a metaphor to create a sense of emptiness
lives of people (Hammersley & Atkinson, 2105). It involves collecting any data that is available to explore the focus of the research (Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007). One could suggest Ethnography is a method to study society and culture (Berg and Lune, 2017). The style of ethnography I utilised for this project was participant observation. I attempted to collect data from my local shopping centre covertly, by sitting amongst the people and observing the happenings. This is referred to by Maxfield
while in the dim glow of the evening.(pg.225) Elaine lied by appearing to be Guinevere so that she could sleep with Launcelot.” ‘Ah Launcelot,flower of knighthood!’ she cried. ‘Help me now! Yonder in the tree top is my lord’s hawk caught by the golden lunes tied about its feet. As I held it, it slipped from me; and my lord is a man of savage temper and will surely slay me for losing the hawk.’...Then Launcelot began to climb down again: but before he reached the ground a great knight came striding down