Images, Book II, L. 111
This guide follows Debussy’s Images, Book II, L. 111 (1907) in three parts: Cloches à travers les feuilles, Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut and Poissons d'or.
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- ICloches à travers les feuilles
- IIEt la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
- IIIPoissons d'or
ICloches à travers les feuilles0:05–4:05
Bells heard through rustling leaves. The piece is soft almost throughout, apart from two chords in the middle, and the player must balance several lines at once. The opening music (A) is based on the whole-tone scale, a scale of six notes a whole step apart, and a leads to the contrasting B section. Somewhere before the opening (A′), the music reaches a in E major.
- A
IIEt la lune descend sur le temple qui fut4:16–9:23
IIIPoissons d'or9:25–13:13
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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