Claude Debussy
Dr Gradus ad Parnassum
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Claude Debussy
Dr Gradus ad Parnassum
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Editions Bourgès R.
- Order no. EBRA069
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Description:
The ANACROUSE collection offers novice and experienced pianists alike a wide choice of classical works, from the Renaissance to the modern era.
We have set ourselves the goal of offering both "must-haves" from the classical repertoire and pieces by sometimes forgotten composers, all of undeniable pedagogical value. Each piece, sold individually, has been the subject of careful editorial work, both in terms of the musical text and its engraving, in order to guarantee musicians the conditions indispensable to the pleasures derived from frequent trade in these works.
The scores are offered in the form of traditional works (paper sheets), and also available by download.
First piece in the Children's corner collection, written between 1906 and 1908 and dedicated to his daughter Chouchou, Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum is a delicate and subtle mockery of Muzio Clementi's redhibitory exercises and expresses, not without a certain dose of humor, Debussy's rather skeptical opinion of the value of this kind of musical pedagogy.
Composed in the basic key of C major, the piece soon drifts into flat-armed and other highly colored chords of a typically impressionistic nature.
This miniature toccata pleases with its limpid, scintillating style, symbolizing the child's impatience with pianistic "hard work". This desire to escape is even reflected in the brief slowdown in the middle of the piece, which nonchalantly interrupts the lively flow of notes.
We have set ourselves the goal of offering both "must-haves" from the classical repertoire and pieces by sometimes forgotten composers, all of undeniable pedagogical value. Each piece, sold individually, has been the subject of careful editorial work, both in terms of the musical text and its engraving, in order to guarantee musicians the conditions indispensable to the pleasures derived from frequent trade in these works.
The scores are offered in the form of traditional works (paper sheets), and also available by download.
First piece in the Children's corner collection, written between 1906 and 1908 and dedicated to his daughter Chouchou, Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum is a delicate and subtle mockery of Muzio Clementi's redhibitory exercises and expresses, not without a certain dose of humor, Debussy's rather skeptical opinion of the value of this kind of musical pedagogy.
Composed in the basic key of C major, the piece soon drifts into flat-armed and other highly colored chords of a typically impressionistic nature.
This miniature toccata pleases with its limpid, scintillating style, symbolizing the child's impatience with pianistic "hard work". This desire to escape is even reflected in the brief slowdown in the middle of the piece, which nonchalantly interrupts the lively flow of notes.