Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Isle joyeuse
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Name (Latin)
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Isle joyeuse
Other forms of name
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Joyous island
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Joyous isle
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Sources of Information
- Grove music online, April 22, 2019(piano solo: L'isle joyeuse, 1903-1904)
- Debussy, C. The joyous isle [SR] p1979 (a.e.)label (L'isle joyeuse)
Wikipedia description:
L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) is a piece for solo piano by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. It is assumed that the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau served as inspiration for the piece, with Debussy reimagining a group's journey to Cythera, the island considered Aphrodite's birthplace, and their subsequent ecstatic unions of love upon arrival. According to Jim Samson (1977), the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the Lydian mode and the diatonic scale, the Lydian mode functioning as an effective mediator between the other two."
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