Debussy: Clair de Lune (moonlight)Piano Sheet Music to Download and Print or to View in Mobile Devices |
| Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque : Clair de Lune (moonlight), no 3 |
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| Key: D-flat Major | Published: 1905 | |
| Level: 7 | Period: Impressionism | |
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The poem by Verlaine which inspired Suite Bergamasque, has given its name also to the suite’s most popular piece. Indeed, Clair de Lune (Moonlight) is often said to be the most famous of all Debussy’s works.
Its name was changed from Promenade Sentimentale only shortly before publication, to indicate the connection of this music with the Symbolist movement, of which Verlaine was one of the leaders. Reacting against realism, a typical “daylight” form of literature, the Symbolists tried to illuminate more inaccessible regions of the human soul, through creating suggestive images and evoking moods. The moon naturally became their favourite symbol, spreading as it does a mysterious, indirect light on the dark side of the earth.
Moonlight
Your soul is a select landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble statues.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
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