Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
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Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (What the West wind saw) is the 7th piece in Claude Debussy
's first set of preludes. This piece is supposed to evoke the destructive power of the wind as opposed to Le vent dans la plaine, which only evokes bursts of wind. This piece is unrestrained in virtuosity. It can become extremely loud and technically demanding.
The piece is also extremely heavy in tritone
s, which can be found in all of the booming chords and arpeggios. It is also heavy on whole-tone motifs.
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
's first set of preludes. This piece is supposed to evoke the destructive power of the wind as opposed to Le vent dans la plaine, which only evokes bursts of wind. This piece is unrestrained in virtuosity. It can become extremely loud and technically demanding.
The piece is also extremely heavy in tritone
Tritone
In classical music from Western culture, the tritone |tone]]) is traditionally defined as a musical interval composed of three whole tones. In a chromatic scale, each whole tone can be further divided into two semitones...
s, which can be found in all of the booming chords and arpeggios. It is also heavy on whole-tone motifs.