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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Debussy
Features: Background, Instruments, Structure, Melody, Harmony, Tonality, Texture, Rhythm & Metre
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12th Grade
04/27/2013
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Background
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  • Composed: 1892 - 1894 
  • Genre: Orchestral Tone Poem 
  • First Performance: 22nd December 1984, Paris 
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Resources 
 Definition
  • Symphony Ochestra 
  • No heavy brass, 4 horns
  • No timpani, antique cymbals
  • 2 harps
  • Flute represents panpipes 
  • Strings are not dominant 
  • Harp 2 needs to retune at bar 21
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Structure
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  • Ternary with coda
  • SECTION A: Ternary (intro to theme, transition, return to theme)
  • SECTION B: Melofy played 3x (woodwind, upper strings, solo violin)
  • SECTION A: Repeat of intro to theme only
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Melody
 Definition
  • Main melodic ideas: Opening chromatic phrase, 
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