MUS 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maurice Ravel, Castanets, Snare Drum

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Music
• Course: MUS 1301
• Professor: Genevieve Boucher

Document Summary

I m p r e s s i o n i s m & e x o t i c i s m. D e b u s s y : p re lu d e t o t h e a ft e rn o o n o f a f a u n. A: written to precede the poem, use of distinctive orchestral colors, especially woodwinds, changes in texture. Lack of tonal centre: sense of floating and not moving forward . Flute continues melody (m1), melody ! to oboe. Return of flute melody (m1: harp glissando and points of colour (french horn, clarinet & flute: fast chromatic arabesques, crescendo ! Clarinet solo (chromatic, darker mood: winds: grand romantic theme, grand theme repeated by violins, then solo french horn, clarinet, violin. Flute solo returns (m1), then melody ! oboe.