The document provides information about French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and his musical style. It discusses his departures from traditional French structure and form by using scales like the heptatonic and whole tone scale. It includes several quotes by Debussy emphasizing listening to music and finding beauty in nature, as well as following pleasure over strict rules and theories. The trio will be performing Debussy's music from his Sonata form, minuets, and works featuring interesting meters and triple-duple rhythms.

1. The Saint Michael Trio
presents
Claude
Debussy
Musicien Francais
1862-1918

2. Debussy’s
Departures
French assertiveness
Structure and form
Picturesque
Tonality
Rhythm

3. Uses
French!

4. The Sonata form

5. The Minuet

6. Some people wish
above all to conform to
the rules; I wish only
to render what I can
hear. There is no
theory. You have only
to listen. Pleasure is
the law.
Debussy

7. Jacques Louis David 1748-1825

11. Naming an
object takes
away three-
fourths of its
power. To
suggest is to
dream.
Sté phane Mallarmé

12. Claude Monet 1874

13. The heptatonic scale

14. The whole tone scale

15. The pentatonic scale

16. Key
confusion!

17. Music expresses the motion
of the waters, the play of
changing breezes. There is
nothing more musical than
a sunset. He who feels
what he sees will find no
more beautiful example of
development in that book
which, alas, musicians read
but too little — the book of
Nature.
Debussy

18. Impossible!
Trio en sol, Scherzo

19. Music should humbly
seek to please. Extreme
complication is contrary
to art. Beauty must
appeal to the senses,
must provide us with
immediate enjoyment,
must impress us or
insinuate itself without
any effort on our part.
Debussy

20. Interesting meters

21. Triple-duple

22. Music is
the space
between
the notes.
Debussy