n his musical language Debussy did not hesitate to use traditional major and minor chords. Yet, he found a way to use them in very original and innovative ways. Some of the aspects that gave this originality was the use of these chords as a way of giving colors without enforcing their traditional harmonic functions.
In measures 5 to 8, Debussy harmonizes a pentatonic melody using majors and minors chords. Not all of the notes used to form these chords are part of the pentatonic scale and even if sometimes we find traditional harmonic relations like dominant - tonic (measure 6, 2nd and 3rd beats), most of the time the chords are used to give color to the melody being harmonized and do not seem to use traditional harmonic relations. It would make no sense to analyze these measures as being in Gb major. The chord that would be the Gb major dominant (measure 5, 1st beat), sounds more like a VII degree of Eb. Finally, Debussy ends the phrase with an Eb major chord..
n his musical language Debussy did not hesitate to use traditional major and minor chords. Yet, he found a way to use them in very original and innovative ways. Some of the aspects that gave this originality was the use of these chords as a way of giving colors without enforcing their traditional harmonic functions.
In measures 5 to 8, Debussy harmonizes a pentatonic melody using majors and minors chords. Not all of the notes used to form these chords are part of the pentatonic scale and even if sometimes we find traditional harmonic relations like dominant - tonic (measure 6, 2nd and 3rd beats), most of the time the chords are used to give color to the melody being harmonized and do not seem to use traditional harmonic relations. It would make no sense to analyze these measures as being in Gb major. The chord that would be the Gb major dominant (measure 5, 1st beat), sounds more like a VII degree of Eb. Finally, Debussy ends the phrase with an Eb major chord..
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