Impressionist · 1894
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
C. DebussyL. 86
- Key
- E
- Time
- 9/8
- Tempo
- ♩=60
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Symphonic poem. Setting of Mallarmé's poem. Boulez called it 'the awakening of modern music'.
Teaching points
- Famous flute opening descending tritone
- Whole-tone harmony
- AO3: birth of modernism
Full score ↓Public domain
Jobert + later urtext, PD.