Musicianship IV: Unit 2 DLJs

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

1894
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

La Mer (The Sea)

Composed between 1903 and 1905
premiered in Paris in Oct. 1905
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

Rite of Spring (Finale)

1913
Igor Stravinsky
(1882-6 April 1971)

Images Book 2, No.1 Cloches a travers les feuilles ("Bells Through the Leaves")

Composed 1907
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

Dans l'immense tristesse ("In the immense sadness")

Composed 1916
Lily Boulanger
(1893 - 1918)

Jeux ("Games")

1912
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
• commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes

Parade - Acrobates, Finale, Prelude to the Red Curtain

1917
Erik Satie
1866-1925
commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev
collab w/ Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso

Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé I. Soupir ("3 Poems by Stephane Mallarme")

1913
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

Bolero

1928
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
Instrumentation: Orchestra
◦ also contains sax ?? :O
longest single-idea crescendo in the history of music
Very repetitive
Originally commissioned as a one-act ballet for the famous Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein
Consists of one repeating bassline, one repeating rhythm and two melodies that alternate (A + B)

Ragtime

1918
Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)