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Prélude I/11: La danse de Puck, L. 117 No. 11

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This guide follows Debussy’s Prélude I/11: La danse de Puck, L. 117 No. 11 (1910) in one part.

Recording: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

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La danse de Puck: et 0:15–3:18

The light, dotted Puck skips about capriciously and is then developed. In the contrasting phase a two-beat dance with grace notes gives way to a three-beat dance, and trumpet-like and horn-like calls break in. Further episodes follow (, then ). The Puck , and again in a final , and in the Puck vanishes on a rising scale.

  1. Puck

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