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Debussy String Quartet

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Debussy's D-Flat Major Is a Key of Immeasurable Warmth

Debussy for the first time allows us to bathe in the gloriously meditative quality of this movement. D-flat major with five flats is a key of immense warmth, which is a muted resonance on string instruments due to its lack of open string overtones. This theme is extremely distantly related to the motto theme, but it is so transformed that it's easier to think of it as something completely different entirely. Or perhaps try to Think of it like a dream where the motto theme has become completely distorted beyond recognition.

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