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/4tYYPS...

FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune (The Oxford Keynotes Series): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Claude-Debus...
Debussy's two settings of 'Clair de Lune': https://academic.oup.com/ml/article-a...
A Study of Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/...
Sensing Watteau: The Artist's Musical Images as Preludes to the Age of Senstibility: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/21060...

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