![]() ![]() Rahon was the hometown of Louis Laloy, a close friend of Debussy and also his first biographer. "Cloches à travers les feuilles" was inspired by the bells in the church steeple in the village of Rahon in Jura, France. It is a perpetuum mobile, meaning that it is built around a continuous stream of notes. "Mouvement" is the most abstract designation of the pieces. It is a sarabande honouring the memory of Jean-Philippe Rameau. Techniques such as arpeggio, pedal-point, staccato, tremolo and glissando are used to depict moving water. "Reflets dans l'eau" is also an example of the new tone colours Debussy discovered for the piano in this part of his life, and it is considered to be one of his greatest works for the instrument. ![]() The piece creates an image of water being not quite still, then becoming rapid, then decreasing in motion again. "Reflets dans l'eau" is one of the many pieces Debussy wrote about water in particular, light reflecting off its surface. 3 is an early version of "Jardins sous la pluie" from Estampes (L. 2 is the first version of "Sarabande" from Pour le piano (L. "Quelques aspects de ' Nous n'irons plus au bois ' parce qu'il fait un temps insupportable" (We will no longer go to the woods because the weather is unbearable) in D minor."Lent (mélancolique et doux)" (Melancholic and sweet) in F ♯ minor."Poissons d'or" (Golden fish) in F ♯ major."Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut" (And the moon descends on the temple that was) in E minor."Cloches à travers les feuilles" (Bells through the leaves) in B whole-tone (the middle section is in E major)."Hommage à Rameau" (Tribute to Rameau) in G ♯ minor." Reflets dans l'eau" (Reflections in the water) in D ♭ major.Problems playing these files? See media help. ![]()
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