andrewgrummanJC's video: DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune Part Your Souls

Friends, Please check out this beautiful book of poetry: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Mysticism%2C+Love+Poems%2C+Reality%2C+Deliverance%2C+Createspace%2C+Passing+Through&x=16&y=17 - It comes in four different covers - Hope you enjoy it :) The Suite Bergamasque (ber-gah-'mask) is one of the most famous piano suites of Claude Debussy, and is widely regarded as the most fascinating. It was likely named after Paul Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which references a bergamask. It was published in 1905 and consists of four parts, or movements. I. Prélude II. Menuet III. Clair de Lune IV. Passepied The Prélude is played in the key of F, tempo rubato. It is full of dynamic contrasts with a very spectacular beginning and ending. The second movement is entitled Menuet, according to the typical Baroque suite form. It is quite mysterious, yet playful during its pianissimo parts and shows interesting harmonies. It is followed by the well-known Clair de Lune (Moonlight), a very soft and tender masterpiece of Debussy, played mostly pianissimo. Finally, the Passepied. It is played in F-sharp minor, allegretto ma non troppo; it is again playful and ends with a very quiet part after going through a section in C minor. Clair de Lune de la Suite Bergamasque Perhaps the most famous part is the third movement of Claude Debussy's Suite bergamasque for solo piano, composed in 1890. It is mostly played pianissimo, and the variations between intensity and distance make this masterpiece one of the most beautiful from the Impressionist epoch. It is played in D-flat major, with the exception of its climax which modulates to E major.