Debussy's Clair de Lune, deconstructed

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Clair de Lune is Debussy’s most famous work, heard in countless films like Ocean’s Eleven and re-imagined as pop songs. But what can we learn from the cultural and aesthetic world in which it was written? Let’s deconstruct Clair de Lune.

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Recording of Suite Bergamasque used: https://open.spotify.com/album/4tYYPSmCZM2bmfrJvXAOfr?si=CwNYgQRyRjKLnuBWutyMtg&dl_branch=1

FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune (The Oxford Keynotes Series): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Claude-Debussys-Clair-Oxford-Keynotes-ebook/dp/B07F3BHSK8/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=clair+de+lune+oxford&qid=1627291396&sr=8-2
Debussy's two settings of 'Clair de Lune': https://academic.oup.com/ml/article-abstract/XLVIII/3/229/1035866?redirectedFrom=PDF
A Study of Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/29585
Sensing Watteau: The Artist's Musical Images as Preludes to the Age of Senstibility: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/210605031.pdf

FURTHER WATCHING
What links ‘The Great Wave’ and Debussy’s ‘La Mer’? https://youtu.be/j0O-uWPrC0I

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