L'Isle joyeuse

SKU: SU.00220545

This CD Sheet Music™ collection features the numerous, varied works for solo and duo piano by Claude Deubssy and Gabriel Fauré. DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, Deux Arabesques, Estemps, Etudes (Books I & II), Images (Books I & II), L'isle Joyeuse, Preludes (Books I & II), Pour le Piano, Suite Bergamasque, and more FAURÉ: Ballade, Barcarolles, Impromptus, Nocturnes, Preludes, Valses-Caprices, Dolly, plus more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1200+ pages

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SKU: HL.132412

UPC: 884088972462.

SKU: M7.BRP-875

SKU: CU.EC10256

SKU: SU.91510180

Original Debussy work for piano, orchestrated by Steven Mercurio
Instrumentation: 2222; 4230; timp, perc, hp; stgs
Duration: 7'
Published by: Subito Music Publishing
Performance materials available on rental only (www.subitomusic.com/rent al).

SKU: HL.50489598

ISBN 9790080086865. UPC: 73999895971. K/4 (23,5x31) inches. Peter Solymos.

SKU: BT.EMBZ8686

SKU: FA.MFCD014PN

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Fetes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy's friend Louis Laloy. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussyan project with Charles Morice entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, 'Les Masques', involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine's comedy Les Uns et les autres. The action is set in a park a la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.

This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L'Isle Joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy's scenario, the mas-queraders then sing extracts from Verlaine's 'A la promenade' (from Fetes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.