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Debussy on Guitar and Ukulele by Daniel Estrem Daniel Estrem : Debussy on Guitar and Ukulele.
 Colorful classical guitar.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), one of the most important of all French composers was a major figure in European music at the beginning of the 1900's. His music defines the transition from late-Romantic music to 20th century modernist music. There exists a sensuous quality to his music and it is noted how his compositions often avoid being formed around one key or pitch. His harmonies, abrupt modulations and use of unusual scales (whole-tone and pentatonic) were considered radical in his day, but today sound quite normal as he influenced almost every major composer of the 20th century.

Debussy was a gifted pianist and an outstanding sight-reader, but his true passion was for composition. He frequently challenged the rigid teaching of the Paris Conservatoire and favored dissonances and intervals that were frowned upon at the time. One of his famous quotes is, "Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law." Another is, "Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

The pieces on this recording are Daniel Estrem's transcriptions of a sampling of Debussy's piano works. The majority of the music consists of three suites; Suite Bergamasque (1890), Children's Corner (1908) and Petite Suite (1889).

Songs:

1. Prelude - Suite Bergamasque (Claude Debussy)
2. Menuet - Suite Bergamasque (Claude Debussy)
3. Clair de Lune - Suite Bergamasque (Claude Debussy)
4. Passepied - Suite Bergamasque (Claude Debussy)
5. The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Claude Debussy)
6. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
7. Jimbo's Lullaby - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
8. Serenade for the Doll - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
9. The Snow is Dancing - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
10. The Little Shepherd - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
11. Golliwogg's Cakewalk - Children's Corner (Claude Debussy)
12. La plus que Lente - Waltz (Claude Debussy)
13. En Bateau - Petite Suite (Claude Debussy)
14. Cortege - Petite Suite (Claude Debussy)
15. Menuet - Petite Suite (Claude Debussy)
16. Ballet - Petite Suite (Claude Debussy)
17. Reverie (Claude Debussy)
18. Le Petit Negre (Claude Debussy)

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Release date: 1/15/2011
Daniel Estrem lives in Minnesota USA

Tagged as: Classical, Impressionism, Instrumental, Composer: Claude Debussy, Classical Guitar, Ukulele

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