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    Sonata For Flute Viola Harp 1915

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    This summarizes a sonata for flute, viola and harp composed in 1915 by Claude Debussy. It was one of six sonatas for various instrument combinations Debussy was working on in the last years of his life. This particular sonata has three movements and was inspired by 18th century French composers like Rameau and Couperin. It has some ambiguous harmony and form compared to a classical sonata structure. The first performance took place in 1916 in Boston.

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    Sonata For Flute Viola Harp 1915

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    This summarizes a sonata for flute, viola and harp composed in 1915 by Claude Debussy. It was one of six sonatas for various instrument combinations Debussy was working on in the last years of his life. This particular sonata has three movements and was inspired by 18th century French composers like Rameau and Couperin. It has some ambiguous harmony and form compared to a classical sonata structure. The first performance took place in 1916 in Boston.

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    This summarizes a sonata for flute, viola and harp composed in 1915 by Claude Debussy. It was one of six sonatas for various instrument combinations Debussy was working on in the last years of his life. This particular sonata has three movements and was inspired by 18th century French composers like Rameau and Couperin. It has some ambiguous harmony and form compared to a classical sonata structure. The first performance took place in 1916 in Boston.

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    Sonata For Flute Viola Harp 1915

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    This summarizes a sonata for flute, viola and harp composed in 1915 by Claude Debussy. It was one of six sonatas for various instrument combinations Debussy was working on in the last years of his life. This particular sonata has three movements and was inspired by 18th century French composers like Rameau and Couperin. It has some ambiguous harmony and form compared to a classical sonata structure. The first performance took place in 1916 in Boston.

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    Sonata for flute viola harp 1915

    Part of the 6 sonatas for various instruments.

    This was composed encouraged by the music publisher Jacques Durand in homage to
    French composers of 18th century. Before this his last chamber music work was his string
    Quartet.

    These sonatas where composed in his last 4 years of life, while he was depressed by world
    war 1 and diagnosed with colon cancer.

    Durand Family published (Saint saenz, Ravel, Faure other French composers).

    Debussy took inspiration by World war 1, Rameu and couperin

    François Couperin French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist

    Jean-Philippe Rameau one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th
    century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera

    It was composed in 1915 it has 3 movements,

    It has some ambiguity in Harmony and form (not classical sonata form and structure)

    Remember other of his earlier orchestral works as “La mer” and “prelude alpres midi dun
    faune” (prelude to the afternoon of a faun)

    Debussy tittles often suggest visual images like programmatic music (like the landscape
    after the world war)

    The first arpeggios from the flute fuse with the viola making a theme resembling the picture
    of water (a wave) or like been dreaming.

    >Pastorale Despit scenes of rural life, Religious meaning of Sheppard of God used even by
    bach and in the Baroque, symbol of nature of pure nature.

    >interlude Musical composition between parts of a longer composition like Acts or


    movements of a larger work. The intermède (the French equivalent of the intermezzo) was
    the single most important outside operatic influence in Paris in the mid-18th century, and
    helped create an entire new repertory of opera in France (see opéra comique).

    >Finale

    The first performance of the Sonata took place in Boston, at Jordan Hall in the New
    England Conservatory, on November 7, 1916

    Debussy initially planned this as a piece for flute, oboe and harp. He subsequently decided
    that the viola's timbre would be a better combination for the flute than the oboe's, so he
    changed the instrumentation to flute, viola and harp. The instrumentation would later
    become a standard ensemble instrumentation.

    The unfinished sonatas

    Debussy wrote in the manuscript of his violin sonata that

    the fourth sonata should be written for oboe, horn, and harpsichord,

    and the fifth for trumpet, clarinet, bassoon and piano.

    For the final and sixth sonata, Debussy envisioned a concerto where the sonorities of the
    "various instruments" combine, with the gracious assistance of the double
    bass,[10][11] making the instrumentation:

    Flute
    Oboe
    Clarinet
    Bassoon
    Horn
    Trumpet
    Harp
    Piano
    Harpsichord
    Violin
    Viola
    Cello
    Double bass

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