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Arabesque No. 1 | Isao Tomita

It’s time to close our special Harp Music Week, here on Musica in Extenso! For the final post I choose a work from a famous and prodigious composer, Claude Debussy.

Today on Musica in Extenso:

Claude Debussy

Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

One of the most unknown and underrated chamber works by Debussy. It has an unusual instrument combination, chosen by Debussy as a best for the mood of the piece. Changing between pleasant and dissonant, with unique chord progressions, it’s truly a gem of early 20th century chamber music. The link will take you to a split 3 part recording, I chose this one because it’s simply the best one.

Movements:

Pastorale

Interlude

Finale

Thank you for your attention and special thanks to the Editorial Board! Have a beautiful weekend!

Lada, Guest-Editor

Debussy - Prelude no. 10 “La Cathédrale Engloutie”

For Debussy’s birthday I want to pay more attention to one of my favorite preludes by him. I fell in love with the Sunken Cathedral back in high school mostly for the evocative imagery, a great Gothic church under a blue hue, choral gently waving around it, fish swimming up in the buttresses and rafters like birds, a familiar building in an alien world. It is based off of a Breton legend of a city named Ys which sunk into the ocean, and every morning the cathedral of Ys would rise up and one could hear its bells, its organs, its singers. This prelude is full of chords and passages trying to evoke the sound of muted church bells and organ music. The melodies are gorgeous over mostly pentatonic harmonies, and the passages act like a chorale and are bursting with energy.

Debussy - La Mer

Behold, the Sea! Wait, wrong piece…so maybe this work doesn’t have an immediate grandeur to it that a turn-of-the-century audience member would expect from an orchestral work called “The Sea”; it’s quiet, subtle, several build ups like waves until a few moments of collapse then back to the murkiness…not the superficial awe and violence the audience expected, I think. Why else would critics say things like “Debussy promised us the ocean, what we got was a puddle”. But maybe because Debussy wasn’t working from a Western sense of drama? Instead of using the term “symphony”, and the conventions of that form which [at the time] allude to some grand finale, he calls them “three symphonic sketches”, and the power comes and goes and flows. Cyclical. Eastern. Perhaps that’s why they chose to use Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” for the sheet music cover art. And the negative reception at the time could also be because this wasn’t exactly absolute music [after all, it’s about the sea] but it isn’t exactly programatic either [no human connection, no story], it simply…is. Nature that is indifferent to humans. The life and energy that goes on every day beyond our sight.

Movements:

1. "De l'aube à midi sur la mer" – très lent – animez peu à peu [“From dawn to noon on the sea” or “From dawn to midday on the sea” – very slow – animate little by little]

2. “Jeux de vagues” – allegro (dans un rythme très souple) – animé [“Play of the Waves” – allegro (with a very versatile rhythm) – animated]

3. “Dialogue du vent et de la mer” – animé et tumultueux – cédez très légérement [“Dialogue of the wind and the sea” or “Dialogue between wind and waves” – animated and tumultuous – give up very slightly]

Deux Arabesques, CD.74 / L.66 - II. Allegretto Scherzando In G Major (Deuxième Arabesque)

By Composer Claude Debussy

Performed By Pianist Francis-Joel Thiollier

Images, 1ere série, CD 105/L.110 - I. Reflets Dans L’eau ( Reflections In The Water )

Year/Date of Composition : 1904-05

By Composer Claude Debussy

Dennis Lee, Pianist

Deux Arabesques, L.66, No.1 : Premiere Arabesque In E Major - Andantino Con Moto 

By Composer Claude Debussy

Performed By Pianist Francis-Joel Thiollier

here’s Debussy’s Clair de Lune in 8-bit

Claude Debussy Arabesque No. 1

Claude Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

Clair de lune, Claude Debussy

Cute little music box playing “Clair de Lune” 🌙⭐

Yellow clouds cover Venus.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930.

Giovanni Cassini discovered Dione, a moon of Saturn, in 1684.

Neptune has six known rings.

Helike is a moon of Jupiter.

There are six spacecrafts orbiting Mars.

Aoede is a moon of Jupiter.

A planet called HD 114762 b is so big that when it was first discovered, scientists thought it was a star.

Neptune has 13 moons.

The smallest constellation by area is Crux.

Three of Jupiter’s moons may have liquid oceans.

The furthest orbiting moon in our solar system is Neso, a moon of Neptune.

FACTS ABOUT PLUTO: - pluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld (a later name for Hades) - pluto is 1/3 water (in the form of ice of course) and is 3 times more water than in all of earths oceans (the other 2/3 is rock) - pluto’s orbit is eccentric and for part of it, it’s closer to the sun than Neptune is - pluto has an atmosphere (sometimes) –when its orbit takes it closer to the sun, some of the ice thaws creating a thin atmosphere –when it goes back into its normal spot the ice freezes and the atmosphere dissipates

Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

Rhea, a moon of Saturn, is the 9th largest moon in the Solar System.

BNHA - Space (symbolism) Edition

So @saisai-chan and I were talking about awesome space stuff and it bled into talking about BNHA, which led to this - BNHA characters as symbolic celestial *SPACE* objects. We’re just… Really enthusiastic about space…..

All Might - Sun. Center of everything, provides life/energy to the solar system, largest celestial body in solar system. (All Might’s influence.) Also protects the solar system from objects from outside the system. (Again, his influence, symbol of peace, number one hero)

Midoriya Izuku - Earth. Has life on the planet, the only planet bestowed with life thanks to the sun. (KINDA LIKE… ONE FOR ALL)

Bakugou Katsuki - Venus. Zero chill, greenhouse effect, VOLCANOES EVERYWHERE (which contributes to erosion and therefore makes the surface very “new” - lowkey nod to Mama Bakugou’s quirk glycerin, making her eternally youthful), atmosphere that burns up pretty much everything before it can actually hit Venus’ surface (kinda like how Bakugou doesn’t really get close to people that much; they are often repelled/intimidated by his attitude). Secondary Atmosphere is almost entirely CO2 - because its temperatures are so high, water could never condense and bring CO2 to the crust. Venus never underwent the change that Earth and Mars had, remaining as it did with greenhouse effect => high temperatures; it never cooled off. (Bakugou is stubborn, change is very slow, still hot-headed with zero-chill af)

Uraraka Ochako - Saturn. Lots of gravity, really pretty to look at, can float on water (average density is less than water).

Todoroki Shouto - Mars. Cold and Red, Mars had a secondary atmosphere like Earth’s at one point - lost Primary Atmosphere like all the terrestrials, gained a secondary like Earth’s (caused by water condensing and falling to the crust, bringing CO2 with it). Suspected to have been substantially warmer earlier on in its life. As its core continues to cool, the planet itself cools.

Kaminari Denki - Uranus. Only planet that’s tilted on its side (he’s a dork), looks plain and boring but actually isn’t. (Kaminari seems like a joke character at first but hey! He has a personality too, has friends, cares about them, will defend them. He’s more complex than he looks, even though it isn’t much) Also, storm planet. (Electricity, lightning. Fire + wind, Bakugou and Kaminari)

Kirishima Eijirou - Neptune. Water planet, a pair with Uranus. (Kinda like a complimentary opposite of venus - water + lava (from venus) makes land, land = life (Bakugou, Kirishima, and Kaminari), goes from Raging Inferno to HOPE.)

Tokoyami Fumikage - Pluto probably. Because it’s the edgiest celestial body in our solar system, furthest from the sun (darkness aesthetic). Has a giant heart-shaped mark on its surface. (He’s a dork and not nearly as cool and edgy as he thinks.)

Todoroki Enji - Jupiter. Second largest object in the solar system, right behind mars, separated by asteroid belt. Extreme pressure (expectations on others/daunting presence) and multiple natural satellites (his own following, influence in the world). Big Red Spot. Jupiter’s coriolis effect/numerous wind cells (this guy has some inner conflicts and issues, man). Protects the Earth and inner planets but also kinda directs some asteroids towards us.

Todoroki’s Mom - Frost Line. (FROST. ICE QUIRK.) Located in the Asteroid Belt, not an actual object (we’ve only seen her, like, twice? She is Elusive), but a distance from the sun, separation between the terrestrials and Jovians. SEPARATES MARS FROM JUPITER. (she tried to protect Todoroki from Enji before)

Midoriya Inko - Ceres. Dwarf Planet, named after goddess of fertility and motherhood. (kind of out there away from the focal point; a little forgotten sometimes but also not)

Izumi Kouta - Moon. Created literally after a celestial object collided with earth. (“sorry I punched you in the dick”) Controls the tides (Kouta controls water)

Shigaraki Tomura - Mercury. Fully-formed planet before, but as it died, it’s liquid core shrank - causing wrinkles on its surface as the crust collapsed on itself. Dead, metal, and flakey. (His wrinkles. He could have had a bright future, but it died.) BUT ALSO NOT AS DEAD AS WE THOUGHT. Literally a recent finding. (Still has surprises for us, he is still a Mystery)

AfO - Black Hole. (Maybe his brother = a smaller star that turned into a white dwarf, while he = a black hole.) Giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (headcanon, but AfO is integrated in society in various ways without the government/hero associations knowing. He is old and influential, is a massive force. Like a black hole at the center of the galaxy)

Villains/League of Villains - Oort Cloud. Cluster of debris that surrounds the solar system; is kept at the far reaches of it. (Villains are the rejects of society, they try to stay as far away from All Might as possible)

Other students in Yuuei - Asteroid Belt.

Yuuei/Japan - Solar System. (has all of this stuff)

EXCERPT FROM CHAT (b/c I think it’s funny):

saisai-chan: YE AH i imagine the solar system is like either UA or japan specifically since AFO is the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy athanatosora: And honestly, AfO at the center - I have seen and have too many headcanons that he is integrated in society in various ways without the heroes knowing. He is too old and influential to not be saisai-chan: so he has influence all around athanatosora: YEAH saisai-chan: YEAH

🌟 space facts !! 🌟

1. Venus spins backward, and we don't know why

2. Saturn is not the only planet with rings, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and the Earth have them too.

4. The Earth's rings are made of cosmic waste.

5. Nitrogen is a part of the composition of the stars, and of our dna.

6. Most of the stars we admire at night are actually dead.

7.The space probe Voyager 1 was send into space in 1977 with a special message for our neighbors of outer space. It was a disc that features pictures, sounds of the earth such as whale, a baby crying and greetings in 55 languages.

8. Venus is the brightest planet of our system, she is often mixed up with a star.

9. It's pretty easy to observe some planets such as mars, venus, jupiter, Saturn at night. It only require a clear night some patience + an app such as skywiew (free on appstore !) can be useful too.

10. If we were on the center of a black hole time would speed up so fast we would live the end of the universe.

11. Shooting stars don't exists, they are actually meteors showers.

12. Jupiter has 67 moons, Saturn 62, Uranus 27, Neptune 14, Mars 2 and the Earth 1.

13. Kepler 22 is an exoplanet also called super-earth that could (potentially) be habitable

14. It rains diamonds on Jupiter + Uranus

15. The moon moves 4cm further each year.

16. There used to be water on Mars, because her and the Earth had a similar beginning.

17. There's trace of organic life on Titan (one of saturn's moon).

18. Voyager 1 (launched in 1977) is closed to leave our solar system.

19. There's a vast ocean underneath the ice of Europa (one of Jupiter's moon).

20. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, in 2015 the probe new horizon approached pluto with the ashes of Tombaugh inside.

21. Pluto is smaller than the earth's moon.

22. Saturn could float into water.

23. Our cosmic adress is : planet earth, the earth-moon system, the solar system, the milky way galaxy, the local group, the virgo supercluster.

ASTRO FACT: brown dwarf stars are like undercooked beans. They’re cold, gassy and disappointing.

He’s a nice guy.