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	Claude Debussy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Debussy was not only one of the most important French composers but was also one of the most important figures in music at the turn of the last century; his music represents the transition from late-romantic music to 20th century modernist music.
		Debussy began music instruction when he was nine years old, but his talents soon became evident and at age ten Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire.
		Given that Debussy's music is apparently so concerned with mood and colour, it is somewhat unexpected to discover that according to one author many of his greatest works appear to have been structured around mathematical models even when they apparently also use a classical structure such as sonata form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_Debussy (2664 words)

	Classical Collection ~ R A CAMPBELL Home Page
		Debussy's "La mer" is that and more, for like much of Debussy's music, "La mer" combines formal elegance and discipline with an extraordinarily vivid sense of imagery, verging at times on outright sensuality.
		Debussy's personal experiences of the sea--childhood visits to Cannes on the Mediterranean, and a perilous afternoon in the spring of 1889 when he and some friends were tossed around in a boat during a storm off the coast of Brittany-- undoubtedly played a part in the genesis of "La mer."
		Debussy was so captivated by this evocation of the life-threatening aspect of the sea that he had the design printed on the cover of the original score to "La mer."
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/debussy101.html (1168 words)

	Sibelius Symphony No. 1
		Debussy scored it for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, english horn, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon (in the last movement only), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 cornets (in the last movement only), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (cymbals, tam-tam, triangle, glockenspiel, bass drum), 2 harps, and strings.
		Debussy's contemporary, Albert Roussel, who had abandoned a career in the French Navy to devote himself to composition, was working on his first symphony at the same time Debussy was composing La Mer.
		Debussy had planned to call the first movement "Mer belle aux Iles Sanguinaires" ("Beautiful Sea Around the Sanguinary Islands [Corsica and Sardinia]"), and the last, "Le vent fait danser la mer" ("The Wind Makes the Sea Dance").
	www.clevelandorch.com /images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/081503.html (2129 words)

	Debussy's La mer - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		The developments of French composer Claude Debussy’s compositional style have often been associated with the French impressionist painters who flourished at the end of the 19th century.
		The impressionism of Debussy is regarded as a unique offshoot of romanticism, shaped by French tradition and ideals, but inspired by a passion for mood, color, and a relaxed treatment of rhythm and form.
		This excerpt, taken from his symphonic sketches, La mer, represents his delicate, almost painterly use of a full orchestra to create and develop a picturesque vision.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461563594_761568934_-1_1/Debussy's_La_mer.html (135 words)

	Debussy
		Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 22, 1862, and educated at the Paris Conservatoire, which he entered at the age of 10.
		Debussy himself did not create a new school of composition, but he liberated music from the limitations of traditional harmony; moreover, the high quality of his own works proved to subsequent composers the validity of experimenting with new ideas and techniques.
		The three movements are entitled "De l'aube a midi sur la mer" (From dawn to midday at sea), "Jeu de vagues" (Play of the waves), and "Dialogue du vent et de la mer" (Dialogue of the wind and the sea).
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Musician/Debussy.html (913 words)

	November 19-20, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Debussy rose to greatness during a rich period which was marked by self-indulgence and a search for stimulation and gratification of the senses.
		Debussy's orchestration was superb, evoking a tremendous variety of orchestral color and sensuousness with his choices of instruments in various groupings.
		Debussy stated that La Mer (The Sea) was a work consisting of three “symphonic sketches.” He said, “The sea has been very good to me. She has shown me all her moods.
	www.greenwichsym.org /0511-19-20.htm (1641 words)

	Program Notes - Printer-Friendly
		La Mer is the only piece by Debussy with which a conductor would end a concert.
		The subtle orchestral Images and the elusive-allusive Jeux were still in the future when La Mer was introduced; even so, on the basis of the Debussy they already knew, Parisian critics in 1905 seemed to have a clear sense that this new score was somehow different.
		Debussy is most evocative in the wonderful theme for cellos, its pattern of swell and retreat echoed subtly in the timpani and horns.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmNotePrint.asp?nodeid=3253 (853 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		Debussy (1862-1918) was a lifelong admirer of several artists whose maritime paintings come to mind as one listens to La mer, especially J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet.
		La mer presents both aspects of the sea, taking advantage of the orchestra’s ability to conjure up color and light, as well as the transformation over time of these images that music allows.
		In its alternation of playfulness, majesty, and mystery, Debussy’s music is a stunning orchestral portrait as unpredictable as the sea itself.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=257 (390 words)

	La Mer, Three Symphonic Sketches
		Debussy seems to have had a natural inclination to construct his instrumental works as sets of three.
		In the Images Debussy concerned himself with national characterstics of Britain, Spain and France; in the Three Nocturnes he might be said to exhibit a similar concern with the realms of sky, earth and sea; in La Mer ("The Seaâ) his concern is the sea alone, as perceived at morning, noon and night.
		That Debussy's imagination could be fired by so little in the way of actual experience only serves to emphasize the intensity of his involvement with his subjectâ”and the validity of what he wrote to Messager: for him the idea was always of far greater importance than mundane reality.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2429 (625 words)

	Debussy - La Mer
		Debussy in fact composed La Mer in between these two sequences for piano.
		Nevertheless, beside the transcription of La Mer, it is Vuillemin’s Soirs armoricains (a first recording) which provides the primary interest of this program.
		Debussy said of the author of Cerdaña that his music “felt good”: we could say the same about the Soirs armoricains.
	www.lydiajardon.com /debussy_en1.html (966 words)

	INKPOT#59 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. Images. Printemps. Cleveland ...
		I think one important characteristic of Boulez’s Debussy is his understanding of the music’s affinity with the French language: the composer, by the way, intended his music to sound every bit like his mother-tongue.
		It is a symphonic suite divided into two movements which attempts to express the slow, laborious birth of beings and things in nature, then mounting florescence, and finally a burst of joy at being reborn to a new life".
		It is Boulez’s characteristic "frenchness" which very much defines his interpretation; and listeners familiar with Debussy’s music cannot but admit that only he (Boulez) is capable of exuding such lovely sounds from an orchestra to play what the composer only intended as "music that pleases the ear and caresses it".
	inkpot.com /classical/debusimages.html (1296 words)

	Program Notes Title
		Debussy began sketching La Mer (The Sea) in 1903, and in 1905 traveled to Eastbourne, a town on the English Channel, to complete the piece at the seaside.
		Debussy gave pictorial names to each sketch, but he warned that they were not meant to be taken literally (although his friend Erik Satie joked that he liked "From Dawn to Noon on the Sea" very much, "especially the part from 10:30 to a quarter to 11:00").
		The first movement, De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea), develops from short thematic fragments above muted strings to a wonderful evocation of the swelling of waves, as a theme for divided cellos swells and subsides, subtly echoed by horns and timpani.
	www.barbwired.com /barbweb/programs/debussy_lamer.html (589 words)

	La mer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"La Mer," a song by Charles Trenet, published in 1939 and first recorded by him in 1946, (rendered into English as "Beyond the Sea"
		La Mer, a brand of cosmetics owned by Estee Lauder Inc.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Mer (104 words)

	zeena parkins \| news
		'La Mer' is a piece of music through La mer and across La mer, tributary to it and totally different at the same time.
		'La Mer' is originally composed for three harps (two acoustic and one electric), sampler, trombone, electronics and turntables.
		The used melodies from the first movement are as it were the scaffolding of 'La Mer'; they act as a kind of frame.
	www.zeenaparkins.com /html/articles/articles2.html (1211 words)

	NPR : Debussy's 'La Mer' Marks 100th Birthday
		On Oct. 15, 1905, French composer Claude Debussy's symphonic portrait of the sea, called "La Mer," premiered in Paris.
		The way Debussy captured the ocean's color, light and mood -- using the orchestra as his paintbrush -- gave composers new ways to think about writing orchestral music.
		With "La Mer," Debussy ignored the old rules about combining textures and sounds in symphony orchestra, and created a whole new world of sonic possibilities.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4957580 (229 words)

	Telarc International:
		Debussy’s idea was to write not a programmatic piece but rather a musical equivalent of the mysterious world of Mallarmé’s poem “Afternoon of a Faun.” He rose to the challenge of creating this unprecedented world of sounds and colors.
		La Mer, one of Debussy’s most performed and recorded works, is written about the sea—although not actually written at the ocean, as the composer thought it would distract him and make the act of composition superfluous.
		Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Nocturnes, La mer and Berceuse heroique
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	Classical Net Review - Debussy - La Mer, etc.
		Debussy himself cared neither for the term as applied to his music nor for the painters of that school (his favorite painter was Botticelli).
		In fact, Szell's recording of La Mer was generally known, even in Cleveland, as "Das Meer." At issue was the clarity of subsidiary lines.
		Debussy was so pleased with it, he himself orchestrated it (a task he often left to others).
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/d/dgg39896a.html (1389 words)

	MPR: New classical tracks: Debussy's "La Mer"
		Debussy: "La Mer", "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune", "La BOite A joujoux", and Three Preludes.
		Debussy is one of his favorite composers, so it's no wonder he makes magic with this music.
		Rattle's take on "La Mer" is meatier than most and the power of Debussy's boldest work really comes through, especially in the final movement as "Dialogue of the wind and the sea" builds into a fiery debate.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/10/13_amacherj_newtracks?rsssource=1 (655 words)

	Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune / Nocturnes / La Mer by BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels at Audio ...
		3: Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune / Nocturnes / La Mer - Nocturnes: Nuages
		4: Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune / Nocturnes / La Mer - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
		6: Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune / Nocturnes / La Mer - Nocturnes: Fetes
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=23344 (214 words)

	BobbyDarin.com/BobbyDarin.net: OceanCrossing
		Far from background for lindy-hopping teenagers, "La Mer" is generally performed with all the solemnity of a national anthem.
		La Mer" continues to rack up recording after recording in France: Patricia Kaas summons both of the song's identities in a rendition that sounds characteristically French and yet jazzy at the same time, replete with a Miles Davis-style muted-trumpet solo.
		In 1946, Trenet himself recorded "La Mer" in a manner similar to that of the somewhat inflated early American symphonic versions-sounding, in fact, more as if he were singing the national anthem.
	www.bobbydarin.com /OceanCrossing.html (2813 words)

	Debussy: La Mer - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		La mer stands at the centre of Debussy¿s achievement: described by the composer as 'a seascape without figures¿, it is arguably the greatest and most original French symphony.
		In this study La mer is considered in the context of Debussy¿s personal and musical development, and in the French musical renaissance in general, looking back to César Franck and forward to the orchestral Images and Jeux.
		Studies of rhythm, motif and tonality show how Debussy generates 'narratives¿ across the three movements, which give La mer a structural integrity unparalleled in French music at the turn of the century.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521446562&print=y (181 words)

	SACD Review: Cincinnati Symphony (Järvi) - ‘Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Nocturnes, La Mer, ...
		Inghelbrecht’s ‘La Mer’ dates from 1954, and is one of the last major recordings to feature old French-style oboes and bassoons, domestically-made instruments with a much wider, softer, and more plangent tone color than the German-made bassoons which are exclusively used today.
		This recording more than any other made Debussy “impressionistic” in the manner of a fuzzy Monet painting, but it should be remembered that Debussy himself hated the term “impressionism”, and did not feel it accurately applied to his music.
		His ‘La Mer’ with the New York Philharmonic was recorded in 1950, and it surely counts as one of the most extreme versions of the work ever put on disc.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=14532437 (2946 words)

	Claude Debussy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Debussy worked on other opera projects and left substantial sketches for two pieces after tales by Poe (Le diable dans le beffroi and La chûte de la maison Usher), but nothing was completed.
		La mer (1905) essays a more symphonic form, with a finale that works themes from the first movement, though the centrepiece ('Jeux de vagues') proceeds much less directly and with more variety of colour.
		But then, as in the orchestral pieces, Debussy began to associate his music with visual impressions of the East, Spain, landscapes etc, in a sequence of sets of short pieces.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/debussy.html (458 words)

	Debussy: La Mer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		La Mer: I. De l'aube a midi sur la mer
		Charles Dutoit does so pretty wonderful things with this Debussy set and his orchestra is in top-notch form.
		La Mer is particularly striking in Dutoit's hands.
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	News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		“La mer is a piece that I strongly identify with.
		Debussy was fascinated by the sea, and La mer evokes beautifully the seascapes in the composer’s mind.
		After Debussy orchestrated it, the work was published in 1915 and premiered in Paris that same year.
	www.cincinnatisymphony.org /Media/releases/DebussyCSOCD.asp (484 words)

	index.html
		Debussy was born in France in 1862 and died in Paris in 1918.
		Debussy went to the Conservatory in Paris, where he studied for ten years, from 1872 to 1884.
		La Mer (The Sea) was composed from1903-1905 and published in 1905.
	courses.wcupa.edu /frichmon/mue332/spring2001/RegoschMike (454 words)

	Angel Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		La Mer, composed between 1903 and 1905, is Debussy's most popular and widely performed concert work.
		La Boîte à joujoux (The Toybox) is Debussy's delightful ballet for children, which was composed in 1913 but not performed until December, 1919, with sets and costumes by the great juvenile illustrator Andre Helle.
		Indeed, he counts Debussy as one of his favorite composers, so it is not surprising that this disc is full of passion, strength and languid sensuousness.
	www.angelrecords.com /detail.asp?SuperCategory=4&UPCCode=724355804525 (520 words)

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