Modern Music

Claude Debussy composed his music with an emphasis on sound, sensuous, and sumptuous sound. His music turned away from German-Romanticism and German music with its chromatic harmonies and melodic formulas. Debussy uses color as his basic building block and in doing so has constructed a style of music to represent him and his proud nation of France. This paper is going highlight his extrordinary style of composition and the techniques he used to develop Impressionism. …

…ind visually with his unique coloristic qualities of timbre. He has etched his name into musical history for eternity. Impression is easily defined with his name alone, and the nation of France proudly professes that Debussy is there own, and Debussy would have like it no other way. Debussy had the ability to make anyone see and feel his art with his unique style of composition.