Debussy Épigraphes Antiques
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2011
- The Six épigraphes antiques began life as incidental music for a single performance of Debussy's friend Pierre Louÿs' Chansons de Bilitis. This collection of prose poems was billed as a translation of recently discovered poems by Sappho. Note, this was not the well known 3 songs, but a recitation accompanied by 2 flutes, 2 harps and celesta, and living tableaux. God I would love to have been there. The score was unpublished, and rather than lose good material, in 1914 Debussy set about half of it for piano 4 hands. There is a very fine recording on the Candide label.
1. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été (for summoning Pan, god of the summer wind);
2. Pour un tombeau sans nom (for a tomb without a name); 2:18
3. Pour que la nuit soit propice (I hope I get lucky tonight); 5:18
4. Pour la danseuse aux crotales (for the dancing girl with cymbals); 7:34
5. Pour l'Égyptienne (for that Egyptian girl...); 9:59
6. Pour remercier la pluie du matin (thankful for the morning rain) 12:52
Note the rich harmony at the 3:25 mark; I count 8 tones, G D A C Eb Gb Ab F!
The Pierre Louÿs book is well worth checking out; here is the first stanza from "La Danseuse aux Crotales":
Tu arraches à tes mains légères tes crotales retentissants. Myrrhinidion ma chérie, et à peine nue hors de la robe, tu étires tes membres nerveux. Que tu es jolie, les bras en l'air, les reins arqués et les seins rouges!
Created, edited and mastered in Digital Performer (MOTU), Ivory sound banks (Synthogy).
One of the wonderful things about piano 4 hands is the cunning way the composer arranges matters such that the 2 players have to reach over, under and around each other. M Claude de France was such a clever one! OK, so I did it virtually, not so much sensual fun...
I get a lot of negative comments on my translation of #3. "For that the night is propitious" is too hoity-toity for me, sorry; and besides which what does that mean? - เพลง
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I'm here after watching the Interview With The Vampire (the series). I was so glad to hear Debussy in that wonderful series. Love this piece
As am I! One of my Twitter peeps sent me the link after I put out a request for help finding it! I felt in my bones that if might be Debussy…the flavor, the chord structure, his delicacy…damn! I’m in hog heaven now! Saved on my classical playlist!
Me too 😭😭
That's my husband's playing! He was the hand double in that and recorded it so they didn't have to pay a license. Glad you liked it! Check out his other recordings of Debussy Images Book I and II here on TH-cam, JT Hassell is his name
th-cam.com/video/zK5mM54G9pA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=aoVyy6W5UAlSDUq3
@@benzervigon7303 Wow that is amazing. Thank you for the recommendation
j'adore cette composition de Debussy qui fait rêver. Il crée des images naturellement troublées
Lily Chou Chou ❤
I bet Bartok especially loved the part at 11:35
One of my favorite pieces from Debussy!
This is absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing!
So good. I particularly love the endings of all of these pieces.
Very subtle mix between the modality, the synhttic scales (whole tone sacel, N°2) and the tonality. Absolutrley aoutstanding! A multilayered music, like most often in Debussy's work. Good rendering.
and just to think, his father never wanted him to compose..
I guess he wanted him to follow in his footsteps. Was usual back then.
and just to think that he was not from a musically rich background family.
@@Bati_it's called: genius, one in a million, in this case one in a billion
God I love this period in music! Thanks so much for this amazing rendition. In the young musicians club (at my school), in which im co-president of the pianists, we are working on a production of these pieces. This will certainly help guide us! Debussy is one of my favorite composers of all time. Thanks again!
No Debussy no Ravel no modern music.
Kind of funny that you say this, because this is not a person playing but a machine
Brilliant harmonies from the late Debussy.
WOW! Does Debussy take you places nobody else can, or WHAT?!?!?!?
I'm amused by the people complimenting the performer. He is very precise, no?
It's really incredible that this is played by computer. It's so expressive. They really are putting us all out of work. Playing the piano well is pretty close to the peak of human cognitive and physical potential. How much is left that we can still do better than computers?
you can kind of tell by the homogenious attack of the notes, but, holy shit, this is very convincing midi sampling.
Maybe because Debussy is predictable in his compositions...
Wonderful set of pieces especially the first movement! for some reason however, i love the part starting at 11:36.
Ahmad Jamal would love this 8:32. Amazing and so Jazzy! Debussy is awe-inspiring to all generations!
YES! I always thought that passage presaged the harmonic logic of so much of the jazz to come.
This is same chords that Ravel used in "Le Gibet"
@@na-kun2136 Thanks for informing me, can I ask where exactly he played it? I'm a non-reader of music so I'd appreciate if you can share with me a recording and a timestamp, thank you!
@@Bati_ th-cam.com/video/n_yIgrkSNzE/w-d-xo.html it's not same chords but same progression you can hear how similar they are, especially bassline
@@na-kun2136 Thank you so much, I greatly appreciate your help! Have a great day!
Pour Invoquer Pan, Dieu du Vent d'Été 😍, Especially 1:22 - 1:35
doux et harmonieux thème que celui de cette invocation à Pan, préparant une fine bourrasque de vent conclue par des accord francs et marqués, qui s'adoucissent au retour du thème amené par des accords légers et s'épuisant par des silences. La monotonie semble gagner l'humeur du compositeur, un voyage dans le temps traduit par des notes frottées de la gamme chromatique.Le vide sonore comme le flou sonore se rempli d'octaves de mélodies et d'accords tantôt crispés tantôt percutants. Surréaliste.
"I love this shit"
me too
La musica di Debussy fa sognare e non è mai banale
Very well played! The two pianists work together really well! Nice dynamic changes and good cooperation! I really enjoyed it!
Phoebe Lu They’re digital pianos, so I imagine it wasn’t too hard to make the “players” cooperate :p
Parce que Debussy était si délicat et sobre à composer, son œuvre parle très bien de lui en tant qu'être humain, un être sobre, aux critères esthétiques brillants.
Who is playing the piano, here? This is one of the better performances I've heard.
Did "get lucky" have the same connotation back then that it has today?
I love this performance so much (I know it's a computer). In fact I didn't find a better one. Could you maybe provide a download link for the music? That would be great, thanks.
Hard music.so petfect.👍
Anyone else also found echoes of this, especially of the 2nd Épigraphe, in the flute theme of Alien: Covenant?
"I love this shit" Why do you express yourself in this way? You love the music and perform it so artistically.
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but it’s evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
John Gay 1729
Curious resemblance between the beginning of 6. 'Pour remercier la pluie du matin' by Debussy with the study 'Vertige' by Ligeti... It could just be my imagination...
Juste some quick French to English tips :Pour + verb = to (to summon)Pour + noun = for (for the Egyptian girl)Propice means propitious (For the night to be propitious)Crotale is an animal, we do use cymbales in French to name the instrument.
You're welcome, thx for the upload!
Crotales are hand or finger cymbals originally. But it's no wonder the French don't use that word. To them a crotale is a rattlesnake. That would conjure visions of dancers as snake-handlers!
I am impressed by Debussy,s this pensive work .
Debussy,s works comfort my tired mind .
From Tokyo of the Land of Rising Sun .
Which national are you watching this video ？
I'm from Magelang, Indonesia. And a lot of Debussy's works for piano were inspired by our traditional Javanese gamelan!
@@stravinskyfan
Thank-you very much to your good , nice and wonderful reply !
We deeply know your musical instruments by Debussy,s 「the towers 」
Your musical instruments are incomparable masterpiece .
We can understand the reason which Debussy was interested in your country,s wonderful musical instruments .
Tokyo is getting colder and colder .
Today is 5℃
Someday please come to Tokyo of the luscious and transient spring where all Japanese people are making merry and floating under the cherry blossoms in full bloom .
We are both happy to be able to welcome the New Year of 2020 safety ！
May glory , prosperity and wealth be brought to you and your great country .
Take care of yourself
Good luck !
@@shin-i-chikozima Thanks for your kind comment! Glad to know that there are more foreigners who appreciate our music, and Debussy's genius especially! I'm planning to visit Tokyo someday and living in Tokyo is one of my big dreams, I love how Japan still managed to keep the traditional values of the country and yet still being very modern in the same time! Love your country, and the cultures! Greetings from Indonesia...
@@stravinskyfan
Thank-you so much to your good , nice and wonderful reply !
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It regenerates from overwhelming and desperate ruins and recovers from the terrible disaster many times .
Japan loves your great country and respects your country .
However ,
those who break our promises ,
those who have hatred for us , those who slander us , will burn and eventually burn out and perish .
This is a neighbor country .
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun
Take care of yourself
Good luck !
See you again
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This beautiful work is a wonderful gift to Debussy lovers
My emotion is unfathomable depths
FromTokyo
was planning to practice this and just rlized its for 4 hands
There's a perfectly adequatate version for two hands, available on line for downloading.
Einer der letzten bzw. späten Werke von Debussy und sehe es als Grenze zu dem an, wo es ab dann weniger Frische in der Musik gibt.
Is it a software that plays the music ?
+gtpn89 Yup, as written in the accompagning text.
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Is the 6th piece what inspired Leo Ornstein's "À la Chinoise" ?
Parece que Debussy esteve nos andes?!
I'm so late to this.
what software do you use to "simulate" the piano sound?
I imagine Stravinsky enjoyed the final piece. Sounds a lot like the Rite in places, e.g. 13:25 onwards
you know that Stravinsky brought his 4 hand version of the Rite of Spring over to Debussy's place, who was suitably impressed
Who is performing? Wonderful!
a computer lol
@@blobberooni I looked for the same information and it's hard to believe that the digital sound can be perceived like that good! lol
Just heard this for the first time. Amazing and scary... the state of the art is much more advanced than I had realized! Thanks to allarmunumralla for a thought-provoking upload.
this a kind of modal theory? please answer me
Lots of pentatonic modes and mixolydian in the first mvmt at least
Could an actual French person translate that third one, please? I read it as, 'for tonight is propitious', with the obvious connotation of getting lucky, but to me it reads more like he's GOT lucky, rather than hoping he will. This fits the idea of Debussy as a skilled seducer (which he certainly seemed to be) for me, I have to admit: 'come with me, my dear, as the night is propitious'.
It literally translates as "In order for the night to be propitious/so that the night may be propitious"
And it definitely belongs to the lexical field of seduction, or hunt.
These six epigraphs are... well, epigraphs : synthesizing in a few words what the author/composer wants to express.
So you could read it as : "This song is made/played so that the night may be propitious".
Oh, and btw I think the title for the 4th song was incorrectly translated : crotale means cymbals, but also rattlesnake, and that second translation fits the title : women dancing with snakes totally fits the exotic, oriental pictures that are to be found in the other titles. Plus, dancing with cymbals sounds odd.
Hope I helped !
agree! thanks
I tried to find which of the poems this line came from; "propice" appears only once, poem 128 Thérapeutique:
O Asklêpios, sois-moi propice, ô dieu de la santé divine, le jour où l'éternelle nuit noire menacera mes yeux effrayés ; car le poison de ma beauté, un jour, a servi de remède.
On m'avait mandée en costume dans la chambre d'un jeune homme que les femmes ne tentaient point. Des caleçons crevés se collaient à mes cuisses, et mes seins jaillissaient nus d'une brassière brodée d'or.
J'ai dansé selon le rite au son des crotales, les douze désirs d'Aphroditê. Et voici que l'amour est entré en lui tout à coup, et sur le lit de sa virginité j'ai recommencé toute la danse.
«Tu sais te faire aimer, disait-il, mais tu n'en es pas émue. Que faut-il faire pour que tu m'aimes ?» Je le regardai plus loin que les yeux et je lui dis avec lenteur : «T'imaginer que tu es femme».
For me "propice" evoke more a kind of Ancient sacred appeal in the sens of pagan, a favor of the gods, the hope for a good sign. And "pour que..." translates in "May the night (in the sense of THAT partcular night) is favourable". Speaking from a literary point of view, it's formulated like a prayer. It fits perfectly with the title "epigraphs antics".
(sorry for my poor english i am french)
All of these prose poems were supposedly written, in the manner of Sappho, by a Lesbian and courtesan by the name of Bilitis. So the persona speaking the poem is a woman. It was quite the literary fraud: Pierre Louys wrote the whole book. No one seemed to care, though. It was quite the literary sensation because of the eroticisim and the "forbidden" practices alluded to. To be accurate we should say that this character Bilitis created by PL was actually bi-sexual. Louys and Debussy were friends. Hence these collaborations of 3 songs and this incidental music for a reading of some of the poems.
11:36
Vladimir Jankélévitch.
Francesco Artusato anyone?
ether music
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They played this far too precisely.
Oh lol it was generated
147K views, for a computer simulation. Why don't you listen to the real thing?
Because this computer sounds good lol
Parce que Debussy était si délicat et sobre à composer, son œuvre parle très bien de lui en tant qu'être humain, un être sobre, aux critères esthétiques brillants.