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16 maj 2018 · Claude Debussy’s La Mer (“The Sea”) is not a literal portrait of the ocean. There is no “program” or story, as we might hear in Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony or a Strauss tone poem. Instead, La Mer takes us deep into the world of atmosphere, metaphor and synesthesia (a blurring of senses).
La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La mer (The Sea), L. 109, CD. 111, is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. Composed between 1903 and 1905, the piece premiered in Paris in October 1905.
Composed between 1903 and 1905, La mer is a uniquely vivid and arresting evocation, in three movements, of the sea's ever-changing moods, eddies, and mysteries, using an unmistakably Impressionistic musical template.
ABSTRACT: This study is an original harmonic and tonal analysis of Debussy‘s orchestral masterpiece La mer: trois esquisses symphoniques. Based on Debussy‘s praise of freedom and critique of ―overprecise forms,‖ the author undertakes to explain harmony and tonicity in the music afresh, thoroughly adjusting traditional concepts of tonality.
23 cze 2009 · Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart...
Debussy considered the first performance of La Mer to have been poorly prepared, calling the conductor Chevillard more fit to tame wild beasts than to lead music. Debussy himself led the next performance (in his conducting debut), but not until January 1908.
Step into the world of advanced music analysis with this detailed lecture from our Live Graduate Seminar course. Designed for aspiring composers and music en...
