Claude De Bussy’s music started a tonal revolution that brought with it an entirely different way of looking at music. It’s simply amazing in its tonal fluidity and how it transformed art music.
Debussy’s Engulfed Cathedral:
Engulfed In A Church of Transition by Michael Doyle The blurred edges of the language of French Offered it's subtlety that happens to entrench Its mild way into nuances of cultural taste And brings much in gentleness, not in haste Impressionist art with it's open composition Gives a sense of visual fluidity in its sensation There in the shifting patterns of light Is that subtlety of color that shines just right Just as symbolic poetry evokes sensual imagery There is something to be heard in the fluidity That describes the look deep within a poet's soul In just these ways, the sensuality of music controls Sound for itself and there in the form of its own sake Moves beyond melody and harmony with its subtle shake Blurred and fluid edges shape the music's sound Without the articulation that Germans and others found The Faun brought modernism's surge of new breath And with it, yesterday's music found cold death A movement came in timbered balance and transparency There to be heard at the dawn of the 20th Century It was the French language transformed to musical action Bringing delights of its own in graceful satisfaction Long, lush and gently lulled as it is articulated Music became the microcosm of whole tones mandated Tone colors became suspended beauty in themselves As if held aloft on some magical, musical shelf Debussy's music is not just another pretty face But a revolutionary construct to audibly embrace (c) July 9, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
