Debussy: Prelude To "The Afternoon of A Faun" (Prélude À L' Après-Midi D'un Faune)
Debussy: Prelude To "The Afternoon of A Faun" (Prélude À L' Après-Midi D'un Faune)
Debussy: Prelude To "The Afternoon of A Faun" (Prélude À L' Après-Midi D'un Faune)
292
data: 1894
LISTENING
GUIDE
40 livre (A - B - A)
Forma:
ternria
9:45
Melody
Rhythm/
Meter
Harmony
Texture
Estrutura ternria.
Lyrical, sinuous melody; chromatic at openForm
Loose A-B-A' structure
Humor evocativo que expressa a sensualidade do poema.
ing and closing
Expression Evocative mood; sensual
Clmax emocional na seco intermdia, que atinge o ponto mximo na dinmica e
Free-flowing rhythms; sense of floating;
Timbre
Rich colors; especially woodwinds
lacks pulse; middle
section more animated
densidade
de textura.
Performing Strings (with 2 harps), woodwinds, French
Use of blue chords, with lowered thirds
horns, and antique cymbals
Forces
Homophonic; light and airy
Opening of poem:
TEXT
0:00
2:48
3:16
TRANSLATION
EstasThese
ninfas,
eu Iquero
perpetuar.
nymphs
would perpetuate.
To leve
So light
their gossamer embodiment, floating on the air
O seu claro rubor, que um volteio
inert with heavy slumber.
descreve
Wassono.
it a dream I loved?
No ar dormente, denso de
A section
Opening chromatic melody in flute;
passes from one instrument to another, accompanied by muted strings and
vague sense of pulse:
Amei um sonho?
B section
Clarinet introduces more animated idea,
answered by rhythmic figure in cellos.
New theme, more animated rhythmically
in solo oboe, builds in crescendo:
#### 9 .
#n n . # . #n n . #
& 8
p doux et expressif
Trs modr
#### 3
& 4
etc.
doux et expressif
4:34
etc.
bb 3
b
& b b4
p
etc.
. J b
J J J n
J
p
F
Opening of poem:
Opening of poem:
Si clair
Leur
incarnat lger, quil voltige dans lair
TEXT
TEXT de sommeils touffus.
Assoupi
Ces nymphes, je les veux perptuer.
je un rve?
Ces nymphes, je les
veuxAmaisperptuer.
Si clair
clairvoltige dans lair
Leur incarnat lger,Siquil
1
1
0:00
2
2
3
3
B section
New
theme,
more animated
rhythmically
Clarinet
introduces
more animated
idea,
2:48
Clarinet
introduces
animated
idea,
in answered
solo
oboe,
inmore
crescendo:
bybuilds
rhythmic
figure
in cellos.
Novo
tema
mais
animado
answered by rhythmic figure in cellos.
obo,
emrhythmically
3:16ritmicamente
New theme,no
more
animated
3:16
more animated
rhythmically
inNew
solotheme,
oboe, builds
in crescendo:
crescendo
in solo oboe, builds in crescendo:
3:162:48
4:34
4
4
4
Contrasting
theme in woodwinds,
strings,
with syncopated
rhythms, then
com builds
ritmos
sincopados
strings,
syncopated rhythms,
towith
climax:
6:22
5
5
5
A Assoupi
section
Leur incarnat
lger, quil
voltige dans lair
theirwith
gossamer
floating on the air
de
sommeils
touffus.
inert
heavyembodiment,
slumber.
Trs
modr
A
comchromatic
melodia
cromtica
na
etc.
0:00 Incio
Opening
melody
in
flute;
Assoupi
de sommeils
touffus.
inert
with
heavy
slumber.
Amais-je un rve?
Was it a dream Iloved?
flauta;
depois,
passa
de
um
je un rve? # # # 9
I loved?
passes from one instrumentAmaisto anoth# 8 . #n n . # Was
. it adream
#n n . #
instrumento
section parabyoutro,
er,Aaccompanied
muted strings and
& Trs modr
A section
etc.
0:00acompanhada
Opening
melody
in flute;
pelas
cordas
vague
sensechromatic
of pulse:
Trspmodr
doux et expressif
etc.
So light
their gossamer embodiment, floating on the air
TRANSLATION
TRANSLATION
inert
with heavy slumber.
These nymphs I would perpetuate.
Was it a dream I loved?
These nymphs I would
So lightperpetuate.
A' section
builds to climax:
#### 9 .
n . ## . . #n n . ##
& # # # #898 . #n
#n .
#n n .
&
p doux et expressif n
p doux et expressif
#### 3
& 4
etc.
# # # # 3 doux
et expressif
n
etc.
& # # # #443 n
&
doux et expressif
b b 3 . J
b
J
& b b 4
J -
p
J
b b b b 3 expressifet. trs soutenu
doux et expressif
. J
& b b b b b443
F J
p
&
J
pexpressif et trs soutenu F
expressif et trs soutenu
etc.
b
J J n
p
b
etc.
n
J J b
J J JJ n
p
p
etc.
etc.
A' sectionreturn,
Abridged
in varied setting.
A 6:22Reexposio
abreviada
6:22
Abridged return, in varied setting.
BA Now try the Listening Quiz.
BA Now try the Listening Quiz.
BA Now try the Listening Quiz.
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