| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 音樂學系 === 103 === Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was one of the most important French composers in the early twentieth century. His music was inspired by Symbolistic literature and Impressionist paintings, and also adds the elements of oriental music. Debussy uses lots of whole-tone scales、pentatonic scales and church modes in his music, thus he successfully broke the limit of traditional tonality and created a new musical language. He became the pioneer of French modern music.
This essay focuses on four pieces of Debussy's Preludes- Les collines d’ Anacapri, La cathédrale englouti, La danse de Puck and Feux d'artifice. These are the representative works relate to landscape, literature, legends, etc and show his mature compositional skills.
The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one outlines the research objectives and motivation with the methodology and scope of the research. Chapter two discusses Debussy’s life and composition style of his piano works. Chapter three is the study of the development of the genre “preludes”, from the fifteenth century to present. Chapter four emphasizes on the composition backgrounds, structure and the interpretation of four preludes. Chapter five is the conclusion of the research, based on the findings of previous chapters.
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