L'isle joyeuse
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L'isle joyeuse
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L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 is a piece for solo piano by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. It is assumed that the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau served as inspiration for the piece, with Debussy reimagining a group's journey to the island considered Aphrodite's birthplace, and their subsequent ecstatic unions of love upon arrival. According to Jim Samson (1977), the "central relationship in the work is that between material based on the whole-tone scale, the lydian mode a
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Piano composition by Claude Debussy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27isle_joyeuse
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2024-01-21T14:52:33Z
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