Path 01
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Ten well-known works to learn the map on, each open in full to everyone.
Pachelbel → Bach → Vivaldi → Mozart → Beethoven → Schubert → Chopin → Dvořák → Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L. 86
This guide follows Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L. 86 (1894) in one part.
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Follow all 8 sections as they play
0:43–8:42
The flute opens the piece, and the woodwinds then take up the , with the metre shifting among 9/8, 6/8 and 12/8. In the whole-tone (a scale of whole steps only) the harmony loosens, and then the oboe brings a new tune in 3/4. The big D-flat major melody (B) begins exactly halfway. The (A′) and is restated twice more. The settles into a very slow, held-back E major .
- A / Flute-
- Whole-tone / parenthetical
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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Path 06
Fifteen kinds of work
One work for each kind in the catalog, from the symphony to choral music.
Beethoven → Vivaldi → Debussy → Holst → Dvořák → Mozart → Chopin → Scarlatti → Bach → Schubert → Strauss → Handel
Path 12
Paris around 1900
Fauré, Satie, Debussy, Dukas and Ravel, from 1887 to 1920.
Fauré → Satie → Debussy → Dukas → Ravel
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