Pianoteqenthusiast wrote:

What a nice coincidence!

I am familiar with the Children's corner. As a teacher already in the 70s, I had art/music integration with the pupils (9-12 years) and they had to paint pictures of how they experienced the music when listening. Golliwogg's Cakewalk were their favorite, beautiful paintings. My favorite too.
Debussy dedicated the suite to his daughter, Claude-Emma, when she was 3 years old.

Thank you HAL for  sharing these nice pieces.
it was a pleasure to be reminded of them. I like Debussy's music. Reverie and Arabesque are wonderful.

At the time I found this other ”Cakewalk” fr. 1909, reminiscent of Cakewalk Childrens Corner 1908.  Called The Little Negro (Le petit nègre)

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...909%20.mp3

Best wishes,

Stig

Was Debussy the first composer in Western music to incorporate the rhythms of Black music?

”Was Debussy the first composer in Western music to incorporate the rhythms of Black music?”
Well, his  influence on jazz and his relationship with its precursors are less well known. Jazz was born in around 1917 just before Debussy’s death. One of its precursors was ragtime.
Debussy came across ragtime (probably in around 1900) and was the first classical composer to incorporate it in his music, in the Golliwog’s Cake Walk (1906-1908)
If you compare the Golliwog’s Cake Walk and Scott Joplin’s, The Entertainer  you can hear how closely Debussy simulates the ragtime style. 
Debussy repeated the success of the Cake Walk in 1909 with Le Petit Negre ( which I played/attached aboce) and, in 1910, in his piano caricature, General Lavine – Eccentric (from his second book of Preludes)

(Sforzandosalon, sep 25 2012)

Best wishes,

Stig

What a nice coincidence!

I am familiar with the Children's corner. As a teacher already in the 70s, I had art/music integration with the pupils (9-12 years) and they had to paint pictures of how they experienced the music when listening. Golliwogg's Cakewalk were their favorite, beautiful paintings. My favorite too.
Debussy dedicated the suite to his daughter, Claude-Emma, when she was 3 years old.

Thank you HAL for  sharing these nice pieces.
it was a pleasure to be reminded of them. I like Debussy's music. Reverie and Arabesque are wonderful.

At the time I found this other ”Cakewalk” fr. 1909, reminiscent of Cakewalk Childrens Corner 1908.  Called The Little Negro (Le petit nègre)

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...909%20.mp3

Best wishes,

Stig

Thank you always, Stig !

Year. I was just like your pupils.
I really enjoyed these fun rhythms of Cakewalk. There are also a few pieces in this style in the collection of Preludes. Was Debussy the first composer in Western music to incorporate the rhythms of Black music?

Debussy's music has a pictorial aspect to it as well, which is another reason why I am drawn to it.

Best regards
HAL

This is my first classical music post.

I have been fascinated by this collection of pieces ever since I received a record of it from my mother when I was a child. Even now, this suite is tied to happy memories of my childhood.

1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...-parnassum

2. Jimbo's Lullaby
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/jimbos-lullaby

3. Serenade for the Doll
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...f-the-doll

4. The Snow Is Dancing
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...is-dancing

5. The Little Shepherd
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...e-shepherd

6. Golliwogg's Cakewalk
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...s-calkwalk

Pianoteq 6

from Tokyo, Japan
HAL

What a nice coincidence!

I am familiar with the Children's corner. As a teacher already in the 70s, I had art/music integration with the pupils (9-12 years) and they had to paint pictures of how they experienced the music when listening. Golliwogg's Cakewalk were their faforite, beautiful paintings. My favorite too.
Debussy dedicated the suite to his daughter, Claude-Emma, when she was 3 years old.

Thank you HAL for  sharing these nice pieces.
it was a pleasure to be reminded of them. I like Debussy's music. Reverie and Arabesque are wonderful.

At the time I found this other ”Cakewalk” fr. 1909, reminiscent of Cakewalk Childrens Corner 1908.  Called The Little Negro (Le petit nègre)

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...909%20.mp3

Best wishes,

Stig

I have been fascinated by this collection of pieces ever since I received a record of it from my mother when I was a child. Even now, this suite is tied to happy memories of my childhood.

1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...-parnassum

2. Jimbo's Lullaby
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/jimbos-lullaby

3. Serenade for the Doll
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...f-the-doll

4. The Snow Is Dancing
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...is-dancing

5. The Little Shepherd
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...e-shepherd

6. Golliwogg's Cakewalk
https://soundcloud.com/haruyasu-umetsu/...s-calkwalk

Pianoteq 6

from Tokyo, Japan
HAL