1. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) musical modernism • move away from conventional practices of representation in the arts challenges to • scales • melody • harmony • rhythm • tone color • time • tonality • and more

2. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) musical modernism Paris (1889 International Exposition)

3. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) musical modernism Paris gamelan

5. Claude Debussy “ Pagodas”, from Prints (1899) influenced by hearing gamelan music multiple melodies moving at separate tempos (at start) percussive, resonant timbre exoticism: attempt to evoke “the East” (title, scales, music) impressionistic effects

6. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) “ Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899) Impressionism - blurred impression of outer reality

7. Claude Monet (French impressionist painter)

8. James Whistler

9. Debussy, “Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899) oscillating, repeated, cyclical chords motivic, not goal-oriented unconventional development, unconventional form alternative scales • pentatonic scale • octatonic scale

10. Debussy, “Clouds”, from Three Nocturnes (1899) Some Musical Effects: Not about progress, development, goals • Listen to individual moments Different sense of Time (floating, suspended) Not as clear a sense of form or individual measures