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Title: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: nanabush on July 09, 2005, 04:38:00 AM

After hearing some recordings of it, I found that I cannot stop listening to this piece.  In terms of difficulty, how does it compare to some of Debussy's preludes, or other pieces well known? 

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: Waldszenen on July 09, 2005, 10:36:47 AM

It's harder than most of his Preludes - this is one killer of a piece.

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: pianohopper on July 09, 2005, 05:11:53 PM

The first impulse is to fudge it with an excess of pedaling to make it simpler, but it should not be done. 

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: pita bread on July 10, 2005, 02:20:58 AM

There's a good deal of polyrhythms in this piece, especially 5 on 3s.

Watch the pedaling too, or you might end up with mud (as with almost all "impressionism")

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: larse on July 10, 2005, 02:52:23 PM

hehe. My teacher loves this piece. Acoording to him, it's just as easy as Op. 111...

though...that's not easy

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: ravel on July 14, 2005, 12:00:29 AM

when debussy composed that piece,  he thought it was almost impossible to play,  and that if had virtually all kinds of pianistic difficulties in it.
i havent tried it , so i dont know how hard it is, but from what i have heard, it is one of his hardest.

Title: Re: L'isle Joyeuse
Post by: nanabush on July 14, 2005, 03:35:28 PM

Is it more difficult than Ravel's Jeux d'eau, because I gave that a try unsucessfully after a while, and I'm also angry because we reformatted my comp and lost acrobat reader, so I can't find download the sheet music to see it!