halpyoco wrote: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
