Showing posts with label Debussy Plays Debussy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debussy Plays Debussy. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2014

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014

QUOTE:
"There is only one real happiness in life,
  and that is the happiness of creating."
AUTHOR: Frederick Delius
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Its more fun to create something yourself
 then to create something yourself then to
 have someone else create it for you."

COMPOSER
DEBUSSY

ARABESQUE NO. 2 in G MAJOR
DEBUSSY PLAYS DEBUSSY:
ARABESQUE NO. 2 in G MAJOR
from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Allegretto scherzando
Claude Debussy, Piano
(Recorded from a piano roll)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKPBYfl4vE
Edgar Degas: End of an Arabesque
This is a player piano with a roll:
This what the roll looks like up close:

ARABESQUE
In music it is an ornate, whimsical
composition especially for piano but
also found in other art forms such as in ballet.
Edgar Degas: The Star-Dancer on Pointe
ARABESQUE NO. 2 in G MAJOR
from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Allegretto scherzando
Judith Goldstein: Arabesque
ARABESQUE NO. 2 in G MAJOR
from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Allegretto scherzando
With Animated Score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ijbuJLtTA
Saatchi Art Artist: Loui Jover; Pen and Ink 2013 Drawing "arabesque" #Art
Loui Jover: Arabesque
Arabesque in Dance
Arabesque
Claude Francis Barry: Arabesque
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Friday, December 5, 2014

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014

QUOTE:
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing
an order in things, including, and particularly, the
coordination between man and time.”
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a way of recording the history, culture,
 and emotions of people throughout time.”










COMPOSER
DEBUSSY
GOLLIWOGG'S CAKEWALK
from The Children's Corner No. 6
Claude Debussy, Piano
Recorded Off of a Piano Roll,  1913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrdhgWR9Zk

GOLLIWOGG'S CAKEWALK
from The Children's Corner No. 6
A "golliwogg" is a type of a rag doll (with racist
connotations going back to the minstral era)
and a "cakewalk" is a type of  pre-Civil War
dance originally performed by slaves
(secretly mocking their owners)
on plantation grounds.
cakewalk4
cakewalk3
First known as the "prize walk," the
prize was an elaborately decorated
cake. Hence, "prize walk" is the
original source for the phrases
"takes the cake" and "cakewalk."
Cake Walk
(From: History of Black Dance
in America)
Due to their performance in
minstrel shows
cakewalk dances became very
popular. Eventually they gave rise
to their own form of music, an early
predecessor of what is now known
as ragtime
Pablo Picasso: Ragtime

which is the beginning
of the style known as jazz.
This song is actually from a larger piece
of music called "The Children's Corner"
written in a format known as a suite.
(A suite is an ordered set of instrumental
pieces generally based on a theme.)
Debussy wrote this for his young daughter,
Claude-Emma (called "Chou-Chou"),
who was three years old at the time.

Chou-Chou: 3 Years Old
Children at the Beach at Guernsey, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
CHILDREN'S CORNER (1908)
(Complete)
(Recorded 1923)

1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (0:09)
2. Jimbo's Lullaby (2:04)
3. Serenade for the Doll (4:40)
4. The Snow is Dancing (6:33)
5. The Little Shepherd (9:03)
6. Golliwogg's Cake Walk (11:11)




Claude-Emma (1905-1919) died at age thirteen,
only a year after her father, by diptheria.
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DEBUSSY: HEAR HIM PLAY HIS OWN COMPOSITIONS ON THE PIANO

DEBUSSY PLAYS DEBUSSY
Piano Rolls

Preludes, Book1, No. 1: Delphic Dances 03:00
Preludes, Book1, No. 10: Submerged Cathedral 05:40
Preludes, Book1, No. 11: Dance Of Puck 02:25
Childrens Corner (Complete) 12:27
From A Sketchbook 04:22
Evening In Granada, Estampes, No. 2 05:07
Gardens In The Rain, Estampes, No. 3 03:31
Preludes, Book1, No. 8: The Girl With The Flaxen Hair 02:11
Preludes, Book 2, No. 3: At The Gate Of The Vine 03:47
Arabesque, No. 1 in E Major 04:05
Arabesque, No. 2 in G Minor 02:51
Preludes, Book1, No. 2: Sails 02:44
Suite Bergamasque: Moonlight (Claire De Lune) 03:43
Reverie 05:07
Images Set 2, No. 1: Goldfish 02:59
Images Set 1, No. 1: Reflections In The Water 06:01
Piano Roll Production
At QRS Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FTaGwfXPM

Player Piano Rolls
How its Made

DEBUSSY ON HIMSELF
AS A PIANIST
INFORMATION FROM:
(Check out more information on Debussy as a pianist at this site.)

Debussy wrote to Pierre Louÿs on the 16th of October, 1898: 
[I have] the tiresome habit of scattering wrong notes from both
 hands whenever [I have] to play in front of more than two people.
 [Lesure & Nichols p. 102]

In march 1914 a concert was arranged in Amsterdam
 with the works of Debussy's, and he was invited to
perform as a conductor and a pianist. He writes in an
 answer to the conductor Gustav Doret 30th of
January, 1914:
Three piano preludes: I. Dancers of Delphi, II. The Girl with the
 Flaxen Hair, III. La Puerta del vino. In fact that's all my limited
 capabilities allow me to play! If necessary, I could always
 improvise on the Dutch national anthem?
 [Lesure & Nichols p. 286]

A letter from 1915:
But at least I'll see you again and be able to play you these
 Etudes which are giving your fingers such a fright... I may
 say there are certain passages which sometimes bring mine
 to a halt too. Then I have to get my breath back as though
 I'd been climbing a flight of stairs... In truth, this music
 wheels above the peaks of performance! It'll be fertile
 ground for establishing records.
[Lesure & Nichols p. 301]

In a letter to Gabriel Fauré, who apparently had
 asked him to give a concert with the Etudes:
[...] I can no longer play the piano well enough to risk a
 performance of the Etudes... In public a peculiar phobia
 takes hold of me: there are too many keys; I haven't
 enough fingers any more; and suddenly I forget where
 the pedals are! It's unfortunate and extremely alarming.
 [Lesure & Nichols p. 324]

LINKS
http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/debussy_plays_debussy
_the_great_composers_playing_returns_to_life.html
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