Debussy’s sensuous ambiguity

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This week we are presenting an analysis of the A section from the third movement of Claude Debussy’s string quartet. This slow and tender section reconciles the genre’s formalist tendencies (highly organized motivic and formal logic) with the composer’s impressionist and modernist tendencies (sensuous harmonies and expanded pitch collections).
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91): III. Andantino, doucement expressif (1893)
Recording: Borromeo String Quartet live at Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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