"Claude Debussy" is known as the originator of modern Impressionism music. French musician Claude Debussy broke the basic method of traditional music to express themes through the progression of melody, and used the superposition of timbre and melody fragments to "depict" people's sensory impressions of things, creating Impressionism music.

The last ten years of Debussy's life were the peak period of Debussy's art. Many great and final masterpieces were completed one after another.

Characteristics of Impressionist music

Impressionist music likes to use the unpredictable and dynamic images of nature. Themes such as wind, cloud, water, fog and poetic symbolic titles, such as the balcony under the moonlight and the sunken church, reflect the subjective psychological feelings and the sound effects of the colors.

Various expression factors in musical language are used as tools to create atmosphere and color, such as colorful chord structures, the use of pentatonic and whole-tone scales, the floating of fragmentary melody lines, and multi-level The structure and texture, the delicate orchestration techniques and so on. All have become typical features of the Impressionist music style.

Because many expression techniques of Impressionist music broke through some "forbidden areas" of traditional music, improved and enriched the expressive power of music, and had a broad and far-reaching impact on the development of modern music.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia - Claude Debussy