Claude Debussy-Part 2 He recognized no boundaries whatsoever between the different keys; the same tonality is seldom maintained beyond a single measure. He uses key signatures but he could as well dispense with them, like some of the ultra-modernists (for instance, the Viennese Schonberg). Somebody said that Debussy puts them in place yielding only to an amiable and indulgent prejudice. I prefer, said Debussy, to hear few notes of an Egyptian shep..
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Music Of The Great Composers --