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Debussy: Arabesque No.1 - wind quintet (arr. Ray Thompson) Digital Sheet Music
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Debussy: Arabesque No.1 - wind quintet (arr. Ray Thompson)
by Claude Debussy
Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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One of Debussy's popular piano pieces, arranged for wind quintet.

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.

Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes throughout both pieces. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time.

Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:

That was the age of the wonderful arabesque' when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.

This is my arrangement of No.1

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