{"id":937,"date":"2009-08-22T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=937"},"modified":"2009-08-22T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:57:22","slug":"debussy-prelude-a-lapres-midi-dun-faune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Debussy, Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune."},"content":{"rendered":"

Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune which was first premiered in 1894 is considered perhaps to be the birth piece of the modernist movement. Though wikipedia says “It is a work that barely grasps onto tonality<\/a> and harmonic function<\/a>,”\u00a0 It is actually an incredibly tonal work, in that it has very prominent key areas.\u00a0 This is not functional tonality<\/em> but it’s much closer to that than the way tonality manifests itself in the gestures of some Second Viennese School music.<\/p>\n

The work sounds visceral and fleeting, just as the poem it is based off of is.\u00a0 In the poem:<\/p>\n

a faun playing his pan-pipes alone in the woods becomes aroused by passing nymphs and naiads, pursues them unsuccessfully, then wearily abandons himself to a sleep filled with visions. Though called a “prelude,” the work is nevertheless complete \u2013 an evocation of the feelings of the poem as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the work is about dirty dreams.\u00a0 I love the video below because Stokowski is so old he can’t conduct.<\/p>\n

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Prelude a L’apres-Midi D’un Faune<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Prelude a L’apres-Midi D’un Faune Score<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll try and get all the parts up as soon as I can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune which was first premiered in 1894 is considered perhaps to be the birth piece of the modernist movement. Though wikipedia says “It is a work that barely grasps onto tonality and harmonic function,” It is actually an incredibly tonal work, in that it has very prominent key areas. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}