Debussy La Mer
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Debuc's Cellos
Every phrase ends with a question, and the incredible color of up 16 cellos split into four parts. And it heralds a completely new section of the piece. Nothing has actually happened programmatically, and yet, through manipulating whole steps and half steps and penatonic scales, debuc has kept you interested. Did you notice that all the motives in the first section ended by going down? Well with the cellos, or, as i like to call them, honorary dolphins, everything ends by going up.
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