Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 2005/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Opening of Debussy's "Jeux" for orchestra
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:46:23 -0500

On 10 Feb, I <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:

> On 6 Feb, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:
>
> > I just for the first time got round to getting a recording of Debussy's
> > ballet score Jeux. The opening chord sequence sounds eerily familiar and
> > I'm not sure where I've heard it before---and I'm sure it was in another
> > work. It's possible it shows up in Pelleas et Melisande but I was
> > thinking of Wagner or possibly Stravinsky ... ?
>
> It does sound like Paul Dukas's 'Sorcerers Apprentice' without the twiddles
> -- was that what you were thinking of?

Yes, just had a look at Jeux -- ISTR the Dukas is essentially just an
augmented triad, like [C E G#], falling through its various inversions with a
little semitone flip in the top part; whereas the Debussy chord is more
complicated, being almost the entire whole tone scale -- in the case I
mentioned, it would include the F# and the A# as well -- but this chord does
the same thing as the Dukas one (without the flip) as the music goes on, so
it sounds very similar.

Other things happen underneath in the strings, of course.

Tony
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